Nicole Huff earned her B.A. in Psychology at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She went on to complete her M.A. in Psychology at the University of Texas prior to returning to Boulder to receive her Ph.D. in Neuroscience and psychology in Jerry Rudy's laboratory. She studies the role of hippocampus in contextual processing and conditioning. Nicole joined the LaBar lab as a postdoctoral associate in 2005. She recently received a post-doctoral NRSA fellowship.

Steve Stanton received his B.A. in Economics and Psychology from the University of Michigan in 2002, where he completed his honors research with Dr. Wilbert (Bill) McKeachie. He returned to the University of Michigan to complete his M.S. (2006) and Ph.D. (2008) in Personality and Biopsychology with Oliver Schultheiss. At the U of M, he studied the biological basis of human motivation. Specifically, he studied the relationship between humans' implicit motives for power, affiliation, and sex and steroid hormones (testosterone, estradiol, cortisol, and progesterone). In 2008, Steve joined the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience as a postdoctoral fellow in collaboration with Drs. Kevin LaBar and Scott Huettel. At Duke, Steve aims to extend his past research on steroid hormones and motivation into the field of neuroeconomics and economic decision making.

Joey Dunsmoor received his B.S. in Psychology from James Madison University in 2004. Following graduation, he worked as a postbaccaleurate fellow in Peter Bandettini's Section on Functional Imaging Methods at the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, MD. Joey is currently a second year graduate student in the Labar lab. His research focuses on the brain mechanisms underlying learned fear, and the impact of emotion on human memory systems.

Vishnu "Deepu" Murty received his B.S. in Neuroscience from Brown University in 2005. Following graduation, he worked as a postbaccaleurate fellow under Dr. Anand Mattay in the Clinical Brain Disorders Branch studying cognitive aging, genetics, & fMRI. Vishnu is a second year graduate student in Neurobiology/Cognitive Neuroscience. His research focuses on how serotonergic and dopaminergic neurotransmitter systems impact the brain mechanisms underlying emotion and reward processing.

Crystal Reeck is a first year graduate student in the LaBar lab beginning in the fall of 2008. She received both her Bachelor's and her Master's degrees in Psychology from Stanford University, under the mentorship of Dr. James Gross. Following graduation, she joined Dr. Anthony Wagner's lab as a full-time research assistant. Her research focuses on neural mechanisms underlying the interaction of cognition and affect in learning and memory.

Allison Scott is a fourth year undergraduate in Trinity College at Duke. She is a psychology major concentrating in cognitive neuroscience. She joined the LaBar lab beginning in August 2008 to work on her senior thesis. Her research interests focus on neuroimaging and contextual processing effects on fear extinction.

Matthew Fecteau received his B.A. in Psychology from the University of Maine. He went on to complete 2 years of graduate study in Biological Psychology at the University of Maine. In graduate school he studied the effect of repeated alcohol withdrawal on circadian rhythms. He then spent a year at UNC-Chapel Hill studying alcohol motivated behavior. Matt became the LaBar lab manager in the summer of 2007.

Steven Green received a B.S. in psychology and B.A. in philosophy from the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Since then he has worked under many neuroimagers including Dr. Brian Knutson at Stanford and Dr. Gregory McCarthy at Yale University. Currently, Steve processes neuroimaging data in the LaBar Lab. His research interest is on the effect of frustration on learning and problem solving.