Scott A Huettel
Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience and Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences- Contact Info
- Location: B243E, Box 90999
- Office Phone: 919-681-9527
- Office Fax: (919) 681-0815
- Email Address:

- Website: http://psychandneuro.duke.edu/people?Gurl=%2Faas%2Fpn&Uil=scott.huettel&subpage=profile
- Mailing Address: B243E LSRC
Box 90999
Durham, NC 27708
Teaching (Fall 2012):
- PSY 258.01, DECISION NEUROSCIENCE
Synopsis
- Perkins 2-088, MW 10:05 AM-11:20 AM
- Education:
- Ph.D., Duke University, 1999
Areas of Interest:
Aging & Health and Human Development
- Curriculum Vitae
- Representative Publications
(More Publications)
- S.A. Huettel, Allen W. Song, Gregory McCarthy, Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 2nd Edition
(January, 2009), Sinauer Associates [detail.php] .
- BJ Weber, SA Huettel, The neural substrates of probabilistic and intertemporal decision making.,
Brain research
(August, 2008) [abs].
- Henninger, D.E., Madden, D., & Huettel, S.A., Age-Related Cognitive Decline Predicts Changes in Risk Preference,
Psychology and Aging, vol. 25 no. 2
(2010),
pp. 262-270 .
- Smith, D.V., Hayden, B.Y., Truong, T-K, Song, A.W., Platt, M.L., & Huettel, S.A., Distinct Value Signals in Anterior and Posterior Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex,
Journal of Neuroscience, vol. 30 no. 7
(2010),
pp. 2490-2495 .
- JP Goyer, MG Woldorff, SA Huettel, Rapid Electrophysiological Brain Responses are Influenced by Both Valence and Magnitude of Monetary Rewards.,
Journal of cognitive neuroscience
(April, 2008) [abs].
- Venkatraman, V., Rosati, A., Taren, A., & Huettel, S.A., Resolving Response, Decision, and Strategic Control: Evidence for a Functional Topography in Dorsomedial Prefrontal Cortex,
Journal of Neuroscience, vol. 29 no. 42
(2009),
pp. 13158-13164 .
- Carter, R.M., MacInnes, J.J., Huettel, S.A., & Adcock, R.A., Activation in the VTA and nucleus accumbens increases in anticipation of both gains and losses.,
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
(2009) (doi: 10.3389/neuro.08.021.2009.) .
- B Bucur, DJ Madden, J Spaniol, JM Provenzale, R Cabeza, LE White, SA Huettel, Age-related slowing of memory retrieval: Contributions of perceptual speed and cerebral white matter integrity.,
Neurobiol Aging
(March, 2007) [abs].
- Venkatraman, V., Payne, J.W., Bettman, J.R., Luce, M.F., & Huettel, S.A., Separate neural mechanisms underlie choices and strategic preferences in risky decision making,
Neuron, vol. 62 no. 4
(2009),
pp. 593-602 .
- SA Huettel, J Misiurek, AJ Jurkowski, G McCarthy, Dynamic and strategic aspects of executive processing.,
Brain research, Netherlands, vol. 1000 no. 1-2
(March, 2004),
pp. 78-84 [abs].
- Clithero, J.A., Carter, R.M., Huettel, S.A., Local Pattern Classification Differentiates Processes of Economic Valuation,
NeuroImage, vol. 45 no. 4
(2009),
pp. 1329-1338 .
- SA Huettel, PB Mack, G McCarthy, Perceiving patterns in random series: dynamic processing of sequence in prefrontal cortex.,
Nature neuroscience, United States, vol. 5 no. 5
(May, 2002),
pp. 485-90 [abs].
- Huettel, S.A., & Payne, J.W., Integrating Neural and Decision Sciences: Convergence and Constraints,
Journal of Marketing Research, vol. 46 no. 1
(2009),
pp. 14-24 .
- Clithero, J.A., Tankersley, D., S.A. Huettel, Foundations of Neuroeconomics: From Philosophy to Practice,
Public Library of Science: Biology, vol. 6 no. 11
(2008),
pp. e298 .
- ML Platt, SA Huettel, Risky business: the neuroeconomics of decision making under uncertainty.,
Nature neuroscience, United States, vol. 11 no. 4
(April, 2008),
pp. 398-403 [abs].
- D Tankersley, CJ Stowe, SA Huettel, Altruism is associated with an increased neural response to agency.,
Nature neuroscience, United States, vol. 10 no. 2
(February, 2007),
pp. 150-1 [abs].
- SA Huettel, CJ Stowe, EM Gordon, BT Warner, ML Platt, Neural signatures of economic preferences for risk and ambiguity.,
Neuron, United States, vol. 49 no. 5
(March, 2006),
pp. 765-75 [abs].