POST-DOCS
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.
Steven J. Stanton received his B.A. in Economics and Psychology from the University of Michigan in 2002, where he completed his honors research with 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 has continued to study endocrine aspects of dominance behavior at the level of macro-scale dominance competition (e.g., political elections, sports competition). Steve is also extending his past research on steroid hormones and motivation into the field of neuroeconomics and economic decision making by studying associations between individuals' steroid hormone levels, their risk preferences, and their neural responses to making risky decisions.
Steven Prince received his B.S. in Human Development (Cognitive Science concentration) from Cornell University. He worked for 2 years as laboratory manager for Dr. Daniel Schacter at Harvard University and was involved in studies of priming and item-specific versus gist-based memory. After all that time in the sunny northeast, he came to Durham, NC and received his PhD with Dr. Roberto Cabeza at Duke University. His research focused on episodic memory and included several fMRI studies investigating the neural correlates of successful encoding and retrieval processes. Steve then did a postdoc at Duke University Medical Center with Dr. Jeffrey Petrella studying the structural and functional neural changes that occur in Alzheimer's disease. In the LaBar lab, his research will focus on the interaction of stress and memory. This work is motivated by animal research using water maze and other learning tasks and will involve adapting these for human neuroimaging studies. Steve is also interested in how medial temporal lobe, prefrontal cortex, and default mode brain regions are recruited with changes in memory content, memory processes, and situational and motivational demands.


