Brianna Cairney

Brianna E. Cairney, Ph.D., is a Hilibrand Postdoctoral Fellow in the McPartland Lab at the Yale Child Study Center. Originally from the Pacific Northwest, she earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Washington and completed a post-baccalaureate research fellowship conducting EEG/ERP and eye-tracking experiments that measured social cognition and sensory processing in autism. Brianna completed her doctoral research at Louisiana State University where, in keeping within the themes of social cognition and multimodal processing, her research primarily focused on measuring the effects of co-speech gesture on memory and identifying associated underlying cognitive mechanisms. Brianna is interested in continuing to study multimodal processing and speech-gesture integration in adolescents and adults with autism.