Clara received her B.S. in Neuroscience & B.A. in Studio Art from Bucknell University in 2020. She is broadly interested in the cognitive underpinnings of complex social behavior and decision-making. Her work explores how cognitive processes such as empathy/theory of mind,…
Congratulations to Abby on the successful defense of her dissertation!!!
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…
Poster highlights from the Huettel Lab @SNE2022
Members of the lab were able to present their posters at the just-ended Society for NeuroEconomics Conference held in Arlington, VA. We had great feedback from attendees and enjoyed the various sessions included in the conference. Shoutout to Nitisha and…
Welcome To Our New Graduate Student
Jade is a Ph.D. student in the Psychology and Neuroscience Department. In May 2022, she obtained her M.S from Arizona State University where she used neuroimaging to investigate functional differences within the dopaminergic pathways. She is currently studying trauma and…
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…
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…
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…
Congratulations to Matthew on the successful defense of his dissertation!!!
We are excited to officially congratulate Matthew on the successful defense of his dissertation on the Dynamic Interplay between Attention and Reward. He has done amazing work over the years and we are so proud of him! We wish you…
New fMRI Research Study
We are starting a new study in our lab where participants play games and answer questions while in an MRI scanner. If you’re interested in participating and/or would like to know what a typical fMRI study in our lab looks…
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…
