Kevin S LaBar, Associate Professor

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Associate Professor |
Research Summary:
My research focuses on the neuroscience of emotion-cognition interactions in the human brain, with an emphasis on understanding how emotional events are linked to memory and attention systems. The laboratory combines studies of neurologic and psychiatric patients with studies of healthy adults using functional MRI, event-related potential and psychophysiological recording techniques. Our initial studies have shown that the amygdala is a critical brain structure involved in mediating arousal effects on both conditioned fear learning and explicit memory. Currently, this line of work is being extended to understand how the amygdala interacts with cortical brain regions at different stages of memory processing and the degree to which amygdala-dependent processing is under attentional and executive control.
Representative Publications: (More Publications)
Lab Personnel:
LeeMarie Ayers (lab manager),
Nineequa Blanding (Duke PREP student),
Daniel Dillon (grad student),
Harlan Fichtenholtz (grad student),
Nicole Huff (postdoctoral associate),
Brian Johnson (work-study student),
Laura Thomas (grad student),
Sheena Waters (research assistant)
Courses (Fall 2009):
- Psy 241s.01, Affective neuroscience
Synopsis
- Lsrc b240, Tu 02:50 PM-05:20 PM
- Psy 359s.01, Principles in cog neuro i
- Lsrc b240, MW 01:15 PM-02:30 PM