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Kevin S. LaBar is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and the Department of Psychology & Neuroscience at Duke University. His research focuses on understanding how emotional events influence cognitive processes in the human brain. He aims to identify the brain regions that encode emotional properties of sensory stimuli and how these regions interact with neural systems responsible for social cognition, executive control, learning, and memory. To achieve this, LaBar employs a variety of cognitive neuroscience techniques on human subject populations, including psychophysiological monitoring, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), machine learning, and behavioral studies in both healthy adults and psychiatric patients. His integrative approach leverages recent advances in the field and seeks to yield new insights into cognitive-emotional interactions in the brain.
Department of Biomedical Engineering (MS program)