Antonella Feeny
Antonella is an incoming Master’s student in the Clinical Psychology program. She completed her Bachelor of Science (Honours) degree in psychology at the University of Victoria, where she researched how event boundaries can shape long-term memory organization and retrieval. Currently, she is interested in using eye-tracking technology and virtual reality (VR) to explore how people with ASD visually attend to and perceive their everyday environments.
Education
2024 - Current: Master’s Student, Clinical Psychology, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario
2019 - 2023: Bachelor of Science (Honours), Psychology, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC
Work Experience
2024 - Current: Lab Coordinator and Research Associate, Queen’s Visual Cognition Lab, Queen’s University
2022 - 2023: Honours Research Assistant, UVic Memory and Visual Attention Lab, University of Victoria
2022 - 2023: Independent Project, UVic Memory and Visual Attention Lab, University of Victoria
2019 - 2023: Research Assistant, Women in Leadership Foundation
Teaching Experience
2024 - Current: Teaching Assistant, PSYC 370: Brain and Behaviour II
Extracurriculars
2023 - Current: Volunteer and Research Associate, Lifeline Canada Foundation
2022-2023: Peer Support Worker, Anti-Violence Project, University of Victoria
2021-Current: Chapter Member and Volunteer, Psi Chi International Honor Society in Psychology
2021-2023: Global Community Volunteer, University of Victoria
Posters and Presentations
Feeny, A. (2023, April 5). Anchoring our Memories; The Role of Event Boundaries in Memory Retrieval [Conference presentation]. Making Waves Undergraduate Research Conference, Victoria, Canada
Technical Experience
· Hardware: Eye-tracking system (SR Eyelink 1000)
· Data Analysis: R Studio, Excel, JASP
· Programming Languages: HTML