Dr. Scott Huettel was recently interviewed by The Wall Street Journal’s Jason Zweig. In it, Dr. Huettel discusses the field of neuroeconomics and how we can apply what we’ve learned to not only financial decisions, but also our every day…
LUEWWD VIII
Some lab members decided to take part in LUEWWD VIII this year. LUEWWD stands for “League of Upper Extremity Wrestling Women of Durham” and is a charity group. Contestants compete in friendly arm-wrestling events while also trying to raise as much…
Bughouse
In order to stimulate the mind and increase critical thinking, you have to train. What better way to do this than play Bughouse? Bughouse is a game that incorporates two games of chess at once. Two teams, each made up…
New Paper from McKell Carter
Congratulations to McKell Carter for his accepted paper, A Nexus Model of the Temporal-Parietal Junction, which will be published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences.
New Paper from Amy Winecoff
Congratulations to Amy Winecoff for her new Journal of Neuroscience publication Ventromedial prefrontal cortex encodes emotional value!
New Paper from Rene San Martin
Congratulations to Rene San Martin on his paper, Rapid brain responses independently predict gain-maximization and loss-minimization during economic decision-making, which was published in the Journal of Neuroscience.
Dr. Huettel was recently featured on CBS’s Sunday Morning Show in a segment focusing on winning and losing. Airing on Super Bowl Sunday, the segment featured previous Buffalo Bills’s quarterback Jim Kelly.
New Paper from David Smith and John Clithero
Congratulations to lab alumni David Smith and John Clithero (and their colleagues) for their new PNAS publication Decoding the anatomical network of spatial attention!
CCN Social Hour
The Huettel Lab’s Halloween-themed Cognitive Tea. And Monica.
