Dr. Kevin Labar

Biography

Kevin S. LaBar is a professor in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University. He is also affiliated with the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. His research focuses on how emotional events influence cognitive processes in the human brain. LaBar aims to identify the brain regions that encode emotional properties of sensory stimuli and investigate how these regions interact with neural systems involved in social cognition, executive control, and learning and memory. He employs a variety of cognitive neuroscience techniques, including psychophysiological monitoring and functional neuroimaging, to achieve his research objectives. LaBar has been a member of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience since 1999 and has held several academic positions at Duke University since 2010. He has received multiple grants for his research work, which emphasizes the importance of exploring the underlying neural mechanisms of emotion and cognition.

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