We are excited to officially congratulate Abby on the successful defense of her dissertation – Motivational States Shape the Process of Information Seeking. She has done amazing work over the years and we are so proud of her! We wish you the very best as you take up your new role, Dr. Abby Hsiung!
Author: Derrick Dwamena
Poster highlights from the Huettel Lab @SNE2022
Welcome To Our New Graduate Student
Welcoming our new Post-Doc to the Huettel Lab
Nitisha is a current Post-doc in the Huettel lab. She obtained her Ph.D. from Ohio State University and did her undergraduate studies at UNC-Chapel Hill. Nitisha uses computational modeling and process-tracing techniques, such as eye-tracking and mouse-tracking, to understand how we make social decisions. She is an excellent researcher and we are glad to have her join the team!
Congrats to Nikki and Rosa on the acceptance of their paper to Nature Scientific Reports!!
The Huettel lab would like to appreciate Dr. Nikki Sullivan and Dr. Rosa Li for the acceptance of their paper to Nature Scientific Reports. The paper, Peer presence increases the prosocial behavior of adolescents by speeding the evaluation of outcomes for others, comes after years of collaborative work and we are excited about it!!
Congratulations to Paul McKee on winning the NSF GRFP Award!!!
The Huettel lab is excited to announce that first-year Ph.D. student, Paul McKee, has won an NSF GRFP grant. The award will support his work investigating the neural mechanisms underlying and behavioral consequences of implicit moral bias with his mentors Drs. Scott Huettel & Walter Sinnott-Armstrong. We are very proud and look forward to more great work from him.
Congratulations to Matthew on the successful defense of his dissertation!!!
Welcoming our new Lab Manager, Deborah Cesarini
Deborah is a recent graduate from Columbia University, where she majored in Neuroscience & Behavior. There, she conducted her honors thesis in the Higgins Lab exploring the motivational determinants of moral judgment. She is interested in understanding the neural mechanisms of moral judgments and decisions, as well as the development of moral standards.
Vacancy for Postdoctoral Associate
The Huettel lab at Duke University seeks a talented postdoctoral associate to conduct human research on the neural mechanisms of decision making. The position is supported by an NIH-funded grant that seeks to understand the dynamic social decision-making and how such decisions are influenced by social status. The postdoctoral associate will be part of a vibrant community of scholars in Duke’s Center for Cognitive Neuroscience and will work with research-dedicated 3T MRI scanners at Duke’s Brain Imaging and Analysis Center.
The position is initially for a one-year term with renewal anticipated upon satisfactory performance. Programming skills, expertise in fMRI, and a Ph.D. in Psychology, Neuroscience, or a related field are prerequisites; experience with decision modeling and computational methods are desirable.
Interested applicants should submit their CV, a statement of research interest, and contact information for 2 references to academic jobs online and scott.huettel@duke.edu
Congratulations on the acceptance of your paper, Matthew!
We are proud to announce that Matthew Bachman’s paper, “Disruptions of Sustained Spatial Attention Can Be Resistant to the Distractor’s Prior Reward Associations”, has been accepted by Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. The findings of this paper suggest that sustained spatial attention can be resistant to a distractor’s reward associations in some circumstances, indicating an important boundary condition to reward-related distraction.
Congratulations, Matthew!