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…
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…
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…
Congratulations on the acceptance of your paper, Vicki!
We are proud to announce the acceptance of Vicki’s paper into the Journal of Economic Psychology!! The paper highlights that individuating information about people’s personal preferences, such as their favorite animal or a preferred food, can have differential effects for…
Congrats to Alex on his new role!!
Just a few months after successfully defending his dissertation, Alex has accepted a full-time offer from Spotify as a Behavioral Scientist! The Huettel Lab is very proud of Dr. Breslav for this outstanding achievement and we continue to wish him…
Congrats on your paper being published, Alex!
We are very proud to announce that Alex’s paper, ‘Shuffle the Decks: Children are Sensitive to Incidental Non-Random Structure in a Sequential Choice Task’, has been published in the top empirical journal – Psychological Science. The take-home message was that…
Congrats on the acceptance of your paper, Nikki!
We are excited to announce that Nikki’s paper, ‘Healthful choices depend on the latency and rate of the information accumulation’ at Nature Human Behaviour. You can access the paper here – Nature and also a blog post by Nikki can…
Congratulations, Dr. Huettel!
Congratulations to Scott Huettel (@scott_huettel), recipient of the 2021 Education in Neuroimaging Award from The Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM). Dr. Huettel is recognized for his efforts to support neuroimaging through textbook publications, mentoring/training students, & outreach to other…
Huettel Lab Get-Together!!
In our first meeting since the pandemic, the lab met at the R. L. Rigsbee Shelter in Duke Forest for a potluck-style get-together. All attendants were fully vaccinated. It also served as the going-away celebration for Alex, Andrea, and Kelsey,…
Congratulations on the acceptance of your paper, Mel!
A huge congratulations to PostDoc Mel Win Khaw on the acceptance of his paper, ‘Oversampling of minority categories drives misperceptions of group compositions’ at Cognition. The study was covered on the Duke Daily (5/11/2021) and can be seen here –…
