Kevin S. LaBar | Scholars@Duke

Kevin S. LaBar
Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience

My research focuses on understanding how emotional events modulate cognitive processes in the human brain. We aim to identify brain regions that encode the emotional properties of sensory stimuli, and to show how these regions interact with neural systems supporting social cognition, executive control, and learning and memory. To achieve this goal, we use a variety of cognitive neuroscience techniques in human subject populations. These include psychophysiological monitoring, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), virtual reality, and behavioral studies in healthy adults as well as psychiatric patients. This integrative approach capitalizes on recent advances in the field and may lead to new insights into cognitive-emotional interactions in the brain.

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Psychology and Neuroscience, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2010
Associate Director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke Institute for Brain Sciences 2018
Professor in Psychiatry and Behavorial Sciences, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Translational Neuroscience, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences 2012
Member of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke Institute for Brain Sciences 1999
Affiliate of the Center for Brain Imaging and Analysis, Duke-UNC Center for Brain Imaging and Analysis, Institutes and Centers 2007
Associate of the Duke Initiative for Science & Society, Duke Science & Society, Initiatives 2018

Contact Information

B247 Levine Sci Res Ctr, Ctr Cognit Neurosci Box 90999, Durham, NC 27708-0999
Duke Box 90999, Durham, NC 27708-0999
klabar@duke.edu (919) 681-0664
www.LaBaratory.org

Background
Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., New York University 1996
- B.A., Lafayette College 1990
Duke Appointment History
- Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavorial Sciences, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Clinical Science Departments 2006 - 2012
- Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Psychology and Neuroscience, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2006 - 2010
- Assistant Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Psychology and Neuroscience, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1999 - 2006
- Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Clinical Science Departments 2001 - 2006
Recognition
In the News
- SEP 10, 2018
  
  LaBar Named Associate Director of Center for Cognitive Neuroscience
- OCT 5, 2016 CNN
  
  Kevin LaBar: This is what emotions look like in your brain
- SEP 14, 2016
  
  MRI Scanner Sees Emotions Flickering Across an Idle Mind
- NOV 20, 2014 The Conversation
  
  Brains Transform Remote Threats Into Anxiety
- NOV 20, 2014 The Conversation
  
  Kevin LaBar: Brains transform remote threats into anxiety
- OCT 31, 2014 The Week
  
  Kevin LaBar: How science can help you survive scary movies
- APR 2, 2014 The Daily Mail
  
  Scientists find teenage brain 'disconnect' causes bad behavior
- APR 1, 2014 PsychCentral
  
  How trusting instincts can mean trouble for teens
- MAR 31, 2014
  
  Weaker Gut Instinct Makes Teens Open to Risky Behavior
Awards & Honors
Expertise
Subject Headings
Research
Selected Grants
- Neurobehavioral Mechanisms of Emotion Regulation in Depression across the Adult Lifespan awarded by National Institutes of Health 2017 - 2022
- Neuromodulation Enhanced Cognitive Restructuring for Emotion Dysregulation: A Proof of Concept Study awarded by Brain and Behavior Research Foundation 2016 - 2019
- Contextual Influences on Fear Memories awarded by National Science Foundation 2015 - 2018
- Evaluating a Novel Method of Generalizing Emotion Regulation awarded by National Institutes of Health 2012 - 2017
- A Compute Cluster for Brain Imaging and Analysis awarded by National Institutes of Health 2016 - 2017
- Motivated Memory as Therapeutic Target awarded by National Institutes of Health 2011 - 2017
- MRI: Acquisition of a High-Resolution Stereoscopic Interactive Visualization System for Research and Education in Scienc awarded by National Science Foundation 2014 - 2016
- Multivariate Representations of Emotion awarded by National Institutes of Health 2013 - 2016
- Social Threat and Aging: Neural Mechanisms of Emotion Regulation awarded by National Institutes of Health 2009 - 2015
- Brain Imaging Studies of Negative Reinforcement in Humans awarded by National Institutes of Health 2009 - 2015
- Emotion Regulation in Late-Life Depression: Effectiveness and Neural Mechanisms awarded by National Institutes of Health 2009 - 2015
- The Neural Correlates of Stress Reactivity, Learning and Memory in Depressed Patients awarded by National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia & Depression 2011 - 2015
- IPA - Kevin Labar awarded by Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center 2013 - 2014
- IPA - Kevin LaBar awarded by Veterans Administration Medical Center 2011 - 2013
- Brain Mechanisms Supporting the Generalization of Learned Fear awarded by National Institutes of Health 2010 - 2012
- Emotional modulation of procedural learning awarded by National Science Foundation 2008 - 2012
- Biomarkers of Interoceptive Awareness in Adolescent Anorexia Nervosa awarded by National Institutes of Health 2009 - 2012
- FMRI Assessment of Attention and Memory in PTSD awarded by National Institutes of Health 2006 - 2012
- Neuroimaging of emotional association formation and subsequent effect on memory awarded by National Institutes of Health 2008 - 2011
- Neural Correlates of Autobiographical Memory awarded by National Institute of Mental Health 2004 - 2010
- Neural Compensation and Economic Decision Making in Aging awarded by National Institutes of Health 2007 - 2010
- Neurodevelopmental Processes of Social Cognition in Anorexia Nervosa and Autism awarded by National Institutes of Health 2006 - 2010
- A Linux Cluster Computational Facility for Neuroimaging Research awarded by National Institutes of Health 2009 - 2010
- Neuroimaging of Trauma Memory and Cognitive Reappraisal in PTSD awarded by National Institutes of Health 2009
- Neural Mechanisms of Fear Renewal in Humans awarded by National Institutes of Health 2006 - 2009
- CAREER: Cognitive Neuroscience of Emotional Memory awarded by National Science Foundation 2003 - 2008
- Neural Substrates of Implicit Emotional Learning awarded by National Institutes of Health 2005 - 2008
- Neural Basis of Interactions Between Attention & Emotion awarded by National Institutes of Health 2005 - 2007
- Neural Basis of Interactions between Attention & Emotion awarded by National Institutes of Health 2005 - 2007
- Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Emotional Memory Networks awarded by National Institutes of Health 2001 - 2007
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Book Sections
  - LaBar, KS. (2015, February 14). Emotion. In Brain Mapping: An Encyclopedic Reference (pp. 619-624). Full Text
  - Byrne, JH, LaBar, KS, LeDoux, JE, Schafe, GE, & Thompson, RF. (2014, July 11). Learning and Memory: Basic Mechanisms. In From Molecules to Networks: An Introduction to Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience: Third Edition (pp. 591-637). Full Text
  - Yamasaki, H, Labar, KS, & McCarthy, G. (2013, January 1). Dissociable Prefrontal Brain Systems for Attention and Emotion. In Social Neuroscience: Key Readings (pp. 43-52). Full Text
  - Fichtenholtz, HM, & LaBar, KS. (2012, May 24). Emotional Influences on Visuospatial Attention. In The Neuroscience of Attention: Attentional Control and Selection. Full Text
  - LaBar, KS. (2012, March 22). Imaging emotional influences on learning and memory. In Neuroimaging of Human Memory: Linking Cognitive Processes to Neural Systems. Full Text
  - Huff, NC, & LaBar, KS. (2011, January 1). Generalization and specialization of conditioned learning. In Generalization of Knowledge: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (pp. 3-30). Full Text
  - Dolcos, F, LaBar, KS, & Cabeza, R. (2008, January 11). The Memory Enhancing Effect of Emotion: Functional Neuroimaging Evidence. In Memory and Emotion: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (pp. 105-134). Full Text
- Conference Papers
  - Morey, R, Haswell, CC, Vora, A, Brown, VM, & LaBar, KS. (2014, May 1). Fear Learning Circuitry in PTSD is Biased Toward Generalization of Conditioned Response. Link to Item
  - Brown, VM, Haswell, CC, Gold, AL, McCarthy, G, LaBar, KS, & Morey, RA. (2012, April 15). Resting State Connectivity Between Amygdalar Subregions and the Prefrontal Cortex is Disrupted in PTSD. 67th Annual Scientific Convention and Meeting of the Society-of-Biological-Psychiatry. Philadelphia, PA. ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC. Link to Item
  - Morey, RA, Petty, CM, Cooper, DA, Labar, KS, & McCarthy, G. (2007, April 15). Neural systems for executive and emotional processing are modulated by level of posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms in Iraq war veterans. 62nd Annual Scientific Meeting of the Society-of-Biological-Psychiatry. San Diego, CA. ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC. Link to Item
  - LaBar, KS. (2006). Integrating psychophysiology and fMRI to study attention and learning. Link to Item
  - Graham, R, & LaBar, KS. (2005). The Garner paradigm reveals asymmetric dependencies between facial emotional expression and gaze processing. Link to Item
  - Pelphrey, KA, Morris, JP, McCarthy, G, & LaBar, KS. (2005). Perception of dynamic changes in facial expressions of emotion in autism. Link to Item
  - Zorawski, M, Cook, CA, Kuhn, CM, & LaBar, KS. (2005). Sex, stress, and fear: Individual differences in conditioned learning. Link to Item
- Journal Articles
  - Chen, LW, Sun, D, Davis, SL, Haswell, CC, Dennis, EL, Swanson, CA, Whelan, CD, Gutman, B, Jahanshad, N, Iglesias, JE, Thompson, P, Mid-Atlantic MIRECC Workgroup, , Wagner, HR, Saemann, P, LaBar, KS, & Morey, RA. (2018, September 26). Smaller hippocampal CA1 subfield volume in posttraumatic stress disorder. Depression and Anxiety ,. Full Text
  - Wing, EA, Iyengar, V, Hess, TM, LaBar, KS, Huettel, SA, & Cabeza, R. (2018, April). Neural mechanisms underlying subsequent memory for personal beliefs:An fMRI study. Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience , 18 (2), 216-231. Full Text
  - Hall, SA, Brodar, KE, LaBar, KS, Berntsen, D, & Rubin, DC. (2018, January). Neural responses to emotional involuntary memories in posttraumatic stress disorder: Differences in timing and activity. Neuroimage. Clinical , 19 , 793-804. Full Text
  - Sun, D, Davis, SL, Haswell, CC, Swanson, CA, Mid-Atlantic MIRECC Workgroup, , LaBar, KS, Fairbank, JA, & Morey, RA. (2018, January). Brain Structural Covariance Network Topology in Remitted Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Frontiers in Psychiatry , 9 , 90-null. Full Text
  - LaBar, KS. (2017, November). Advances in neuroscience. Science advances , 3 (11), eaar2953-. Full Text Open Access Copy
  - Zucker, NL, Kragel, PA, Wagner, HR, Keeling, L, Mayer, E, Wang, J, Kang, MS, Merwin, R, Simmons, WK, & LaBar, KS. (2017, November). The Clinical Significance of Posterior Insular Volume in Adolescent Anorexia Nervosa. Psychosomatic medicine , 79 (9), 1025-1035. Full Text
  - Li, D, Zucker, NL, Kragel, PA, Covington, VE, & LaBar, KS. (2017, September). Adolescent development of insula-dependent interoceptive regulation. Developmental science , 20 (5). Full Text
  - Dowd, EW, Mitroff, SR, & LaBar, KS. (2016, October). Fear generalization gradients in visuospatial attention. Emotion (Washington, D.C.) , 16 (7), 1011-1018. Full Text
  - Murty, VP, LaBar, KS, & Adcock, RA. (2016, October). Distinct medial temporal networks encode surprise during motivation by reward versus punishment. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory , 134 Pt A , 55-64. Full Text
  - Kragel, PA, Knodt, AR, Hariri, AR, & LaBar, KS. (2016, September 14). Decoding Spontaneous Emotional States in the Human Brain. Plos Biology , 14 (9), e2000106-null. Full Text Open Access Copy
  - Kragel, PA, & LaBar, KS. (2016, June). Decoding the Nature of Emotion in the Brain. Trends in Cognitive Sciences , 20 (6), 444-455. (Review) Full Text
  - Gorka, AX, LaBar, KS, & Hariri, AR. (2016, May). Variability in emotional responsiveness and coping style during active avoidance as a window onto psychological vulnerability to stress. Physiology & Behavior , 158 , 90-99. Full Text
  - Lake, JI, LaBar, KS, & Meck, WH. (2016, May). Emotional modulation of interval timing and time perception. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews , 64 , 403-420. (Review) Full Text
  - Kragel, PA, & LaBar, KS. (2016, March). Somatosensory Representations Link the Perception of Emotional Expressions and Sensory Experience. Eneuro , 3 (2). Full Text
  - Lake, JI, Meck, WH, & LaBar, KS. (2016, January). Discriminative Fear Learners are Resilient to Temporal Distortions during Threat Anticipation. Timing & time perception (Leiden, Netherlands) , 4 (1), 63-78. Full Text
  - Morey, RA, Dunsmoor, JE, Haswell, CC, Brown, VM, Vora, A, Weiner, J, Stjepanovic, D, Wagner, HR, VA Mid-Atlantic MIRECC Workgroup, , & LaBar, KS. (2015, December 15). Fear learning circuitry is biased toward generalization of fear associations in posttraumatic stress disorder. Translational Psychiatry , 5 , e700-null. Full Text Open Access Copy
  - Kragel, PA, & LaBar, KS. (2015, November). Multivariate neural biomarkers of emotional states are categorically distinct. Social cognitive and affective neuroscience , 10 (11), 1437-1448. Full Text
  - Åhs, F, Kragel, PA, Zielinski, DJ, Brady, R, & LaBar, KS. (2015, November). Medial prefrontal pathways for the contextual regulation of extinguished fear in humans. Neuroimage , 122 , 262-271. Full Text
  - Åhs, F, Dunsmoor, JE, Zielinski, D, & LaBar, KS. (2015, April). Spatial proximity amplifies valence in emotional memory and defensive approach-avoidance. Neuropsychologia , 70 , 476-485. Full Text
  - Kragel, PA, Zucker, NL, Covington, VE, & LaBar, KS. (2015, February). Developmental trajectories of cortical-subcortical interactions underlying the evaluation of trust in adolescence. Social cognitive and affective neuroscience , 10 (2), 240-247. Full Text
  - LaBar, KS. (2015, January). Therapeutic affect reduction, emotion regulation, and emotional memory reconsolidation: A neuroscientific quandary. The Behavioral and brain sciences , 38 , e10-. Full Text
  - Dunsmoor, JE, Kragel, PA, Martin, A, & LaBar, KS. (2014, November). Aversive learning modulates cortical representations of object categories. Cereb Cortex , 24 (11), 2859-2872. Full Text Link to Item
  - Dunsmoor, JE, Ahs, F, Zielinski, DJ, & LaBar, KS. (2014, September). Extinction in multiple virtual reality contexts diminishes fear reinstatement in humans. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory , 113 , 157-164. Full Text
  - Smoski, MJ, LaBar, KS, & Steffens, DC. (2014, September). Relative effectiveness of reappraisal and distraction in regulating emotion in late-life depression. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry , 22 (9), 898-907. Full Text Link to Item
  - Dew, ITZ, Ritchey, M, LaBar, KS, & Cabeza, R. (2014, July). Prior perceptual processing enhances the effect of emotional arousal on the neural correlates of memory retrieval. Neurobiol Learn Mem , 112 , 104-113. Full Text Link to Item
  - Hoscheidt, SM, LaBar, KS, Ryan, L, Jacobs, WJ, & Nadel, L. (2014, July). Encoding negative events under stress: high subjective arousal is related to accurate emotional memory despite misinformation exposure. Neurobiol Learn Mem , 112 , 237-247. Full Text Link to Item
  - Lake, JI, LaBar, KS, & Meck, WH. (2014, June). Hear it playing low and slow: how pitch level differentially influences time perception. Acta psychologica , 149 , 169-177. Full Text
  - Kragel, PA, & LaBar, KS. (2014, April). Advancing emotion theory with multivariate pattern classification. Emotion Review : Journal of the International Society for Research on Emotion , 6 (2), 160-174. Full Text
  - Green, SR, Kragel, PA, Fecteau, ME, & LaBar, KS. (2014, March). Development and validation of an unsupervised scoring system (Autonomate) for skin conductance response analysis. Int J Psychophysiol , 91 (3), 186-193. Full Text Link to Item
  - Brown, VM, Strauss, JL, LaBar, KS, Gold, AL, McCarthy, G, & Morey, RA. (2014, January 30). Acute effects of trauma-focused research procedures on participant safety and distress. Psychiatry Research , 215 (1), 154-158. Full Text
  - Brown, VM, LaBar, KS, Haswell, CC, Gold, AL, Mid-Atlantic MIRECC Workgroup, , McCarthy, G, & Morey, RA. (2014, January). Altered resting-state functional connectivity of basolateral and centromedial amygdala complexes in posttraumatic stress disorder. Neuropsychopharmacology : Official Publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology , 39 (2), 351-359. Full Text Open Access Copy
  - Smoski, MJ, Labar, KS, & Steffens, DC. (2014, January 1). Relative effectiveness of reappraisal and distraction in regulating emotion in late-life depression. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry , 22 (9), 898-907. Full Text
  - Stanton, SJ, Reeck, C, Huettel, SA, & LaBar, KS. (2014, January 1). Effects of induced moods on economic choices. Judgment and Decision Making , 9 (2), 167-175.
  - Ritchey, M, Wing, EA, LaBar, KS, & Cabeza, R. (2013, December). Neural similarity between encoding and retrieval is related to memory via hippocampal interactions. Cereb Cortex , 23 (12), 2818-2828. Full Text Link to Item
  - Kragel, PA, & Labar, KS. (2013, August). Multivariate pattern classification reveals autonomic and experiential representations of discrete emotions. Emotion (Washington, D.C.) , 13 (4), 681-690. Full Text
  - Dunsmoor, JE, & LaBar, KS. (2013, June). Effects of discrimination training on fear generalization gradients and perceptual classification in humans. Behav Neurosci , 127 (3), 350-356. Full Text Link to Item
  - Zucker, N, Moskovich, A, Bulik, CM, Merwin, R, Gaddis, K, Losh, M, Piven, J, Wagner, HR, & LaBar, KS. (2013, January). Perception of affect in biological motion cues in anorexia nervosa. Int J Eat Disord , 46 (1), 12-22. Full Text Link to Item
  - Morey, RA, Gold, AL, LaBar, KS, Beall, SK, Brown, VM, Haswell, CC, Nasser, JD, Wagner, HR, McCarthy, G, & Mid-Atlantic MIRECC Workgroup, . (2012, November). Amygdala volume changes in posttraumatic stress disorder in a large case-controlled veterans group. Archives of General Psychiatry , 69 (11), 1169-1178. Full Text Open Access Copy
  - Murty, VP, Labar, KS, & Adcock, RA. (2012, June). Threat of punishment motivates memory encoding via amygdala, not midbrain, interactions with the medial temporal lobe. The Journal of Neuroscience : the Official Journal of the Society for Neuroscience , 32 (26), 8969-8976. Full Text
  - Reeck, C, LaBar, KS, & Egner, T. (2012, May). Neural mechanisms mediating contingent capture of attention by affective stimuli. J Cogn Neurosci , 24 (5), 1113-1126. Full Text Link to Item
  - Graham, R, & Labar, KS. (2012, April). Neurocognitive mechanisms of gaze-expression interactions in face processing and social attention. Neuropsychologia , 50 (5), 553-566. (Review) Full Text
  - Dunsmoor, JE, & LaBar, KS. (2012, March). Brain activity associated with omission of an aversive event reveals the effects of fear learning and generalization. Neurobiol Learn Mem , 97 (3), 301-312. Full Text Link to Item
  - Morey, RA, McCarthy, G, Selgrade, ES, Seth, S, Nasser, JD, & LaBar, KS. (2012, March). Neural systems for guilt from actions affecting self versus others. Neuroimage , 60 (1), 683-692. Full Text Open Access Copy
  - Dunsmoor, JE, Martin, A, & LaBar, KS. (2012, February). Role of conceptual knowledge in learning and retention of conditioned fear. Biological Psychology , 89 (2), 300-305. Full Text
  - Prince, SE, Thomas, LA, Kragel, PA, & LaBar, KS. (2012, January 2). Fear-relevant outcomes modulate the neural correlates of probabilistic classification learning. Neuroimage , 59 (1), 695-707. Full Text Link to Item
  - Ritchey, M, Wing, E, LaBar, KS, & Cabeza, R. (2012). Cortical reactivation predicts memory success for individual items via hippocampal interactions. Cerebral Cortex , in press . (Academic Article)
  - Dennis, NA, Cabeza, R, Need, AC, Waters-Metenier, S, Goldstein, DB, & LaBar, KS. (2011, September). Brain-derived neurotrophic factor val66met polymorphism and hippocampal activation during episodic encoding and retrieval tasks. Hippocampus , 21 (9), 980-989. Full Text Link to Item
  - Cain, MS, Dunsmoor, JE, LaBar, KS, & Mitroff, SR. (2011, July). Anticipatory anxiety hinders detection of a second target in dual-target search. Psychol Sci , 22 (7), 866-871. Full Text Link to Item
  - LaBar, KS. (2011, July). Cracking the almond (Commentary on Prévost et al.). Eur J Neurosci , 34 (1), 133-. Full Text Link to Item
  - Smoski, MJ, Salsman, N, Wang, L, Smith, V, Lynch, TR, Dager, SR, LaBar, KS, & Linehan, MM. (2011, July). Functional imaging of emotion reactivity in opiate-dependent borderline personality disorder. Personality Disorders , 2 (3), 230-241. Full Text
  - Zucker, NL, Green, S, Morris, JP, Kragel, P, Pelphrey, KA, Bulik, CM, & LaBar, KS. (2011, June). Hemodynamic signals of mixed messages during a social exchange. Neuroreport , 22 (9), 413-418. Full Text
  - Hayes, JP, LaBar, KS, McCarthy, G, Selgrade, E, Nasser, J, Dolcos, F, VISN 6 Mid-Atlantic MIRECC workgroup, , & Morey, RA. (2011, May). Reduced hippocampal and amygdala activity predicts memory distortions for trauma reminders in combat-related PTSD. Journal of Psychiatric Research , 45 (5), 660-669. Full Text Open Access Copy
  - Dunsmoor, JE, Prince, SE, Murty, VP, Kragel, PA, & LaBar, KS. (2011, April). Neurobehavioral mechanisms of human fear generalization. Neuroimage , 55 (4), 1878-1888. Full Text
  - Ritchey, M, LaBar, KS, & Cabeza, R. (2011, April). Level of processing modulates the neural correlates of emotional memory formation. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience , 23 (4), 757-771. Full Text
  - Stanton, SJ, Mullette-Gillman, OA, McLaurin, RE, Kuhn, CM, LaBar, KS, Platt, ML, & Huettel, SA. (2011, April). Low- and high-testosterone individuals exhibit decreased aversion to economic risk. Psychol Sci , 22 (4), 447-453. Full Text Link to Item
  - Winecoff, A, Labar, KS, Madden, DJ, Cabeza, R, & Huettel, SA. (2011, April). Cognitive and neural contributors to emotion regulation in aging. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience , 6 (2), 165-176. Full Text
  - Murty, VP, Ritchey, M, Adcock, RA, & LaBar, KS. (2011, March). Reprint of: fMRI studies of successful emotional memory encoding: a quantitative meta-analysis. Neuropsychologia , 49 (4), 695-705. Full Text Link to Item
  - Hallahan, B, Newell, J, Soares, JC, Brambilla, P, Strakowski, SM, Fleck, DE, Kieseppä, T, Altshuler, LL, Fornito, A, Malhi, GS, McIntosh, AM, Yurgelun-Todd, DA, Labar, KS, Sharma, V, MacQueen, GM, Murray, RM, & McDonald, C. (2011, February). Structural magnetic resonance imaging in bipolar disorder: an international collaborative mega-analysis of individual adult patient data. Biological Psychiatry , 69 (4), 326-335. Full Text
  - Dunsmoor, JE, Ahs, F, & Labar, KS. (2011). Neurocognitive mechanisms of fear conditioning and vulnerability to anxiety. (Published online) Front Hum Neurosci , 5 , 35-. Full Text Open Access Copy Link to Item
  - Dunsmoor, JE, White, AJ, & LaBar, KS. (2011). Conceptual similarity promotes generalization of higher order fear learning. (Published online) Learn Mem , 18 (3), 156-160. Full Text Link to Item
  - Huff, NC, Hernandez, JA, Fecteau, ME, Zielinski, DJ, Brady, R, & Labar, KS. (2011, January). Revealing context-specific conditioned fear memories with full immersion virtual reality. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience , 5 , 75-null. Full Text Open Access Copy
  - Lake, JI, & Labar, KS. (2011). Unpredictability and uncertainty in anxiety: a new direction for emotional timing research. (Published online) Front Integr Neurosci , 5 , 55-. Full Text Open Access Copy Link to Item
  - Murty, VP, LaBar, KS, Hamilton, DA, & Adcock, RA. (2011, January). Is all motivation good for learning? Dissociable influences of approach and avoidance motivation in declarative memory. Learning & Memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.) , 18 (11), 712-717. Full Text
  - Zucker, NL, Green, S, Morris, JP, Kragel, P, Pelphrey, KA, Bulik, CM, & LaBar, KS. (2011). Neural signaling of mixed messages during a social exchange. Neuroreport , 22 , 413-418. (Academic Article)
  - Murty, VP, Ritchey, M, Adcock, RA, & LaBar, KS. (2010, October). fMRI studies of successful emotional memory encoding: A quantitative meta-analysis. Neuropsychologia , 48 (12), 3459-3469. Full Text
  - Huff, NC, Zeilinski, DJ, Fecteau, ME, Brady, R, & LaBar, KS. (2010, August 9). Human fear conditioning conducted in full immersion 3-dimensional virtual reality. (Published online) J Vis Exp , (42). Full Text Link to Item
  - Stanton, SJ, Labar, KS, Saini, EK, Kuhn, CM, & Beehner, JC. (2010, June). Stressful politics: voters' cortisol responses to the outcome of the 2008 United States Presidential election. Psychoneuroendocrinology , 35 (5), 768-774. Full Text Link to Item
  - Dennis, NA, Need, AC, LaBar, KS, Waters-Metenier, S, Cirulli, ET, Kragel, J, Goldstein, DB, & Cabeza, R. (2010, March). COMT val108/158 met genotype affects neural but not cognitive processing in healthy individuals. Cereb Cortex , 20 (3), 672-683. Full Text Link to Item
  - Graham, R, Kelland Friesen, C, Fichtenholtz, HM, & LaBar, KS. (2010, March). Modulation of reflexive orienting to gaze direction by facial expressions. Visual Cognition , 18 (3), 331-368. Full Text
  - Botzung, A, Rubin, DC, Miles, A, Cabeza, R, & Labar, KS. (2010, February). Mental hoop diaries: emotional memories of a college basketball game in rival fans. The Journal of Neuroscience : the Official Journal of the Society for Neuroscience , 30 (6), 2130-2137. Full Text Open Access Copy
  - Botzung, A, Labar, KS, Kragel, P, Miles, A, & Rubin, DC. (2010). Component Neural Systems for the Creation of Emotional Memories during Free Viewing of a Complex, Real-World Event. (Published online) Front Hum Neurosci , 4 , 34-. Full Text Open Access Copy Link to Item
  - Hayes, JP, Morey, RA, Petty, CM, Seth, S, Smoski, MJ, McCarthy, G, & Labar, KS. (2010, January). Staying cool when things get hot: emotion regulation modulates neural mechanisms of memory encoding. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience , 4 , 230-null. Full Text Open Access Copy
  - Morey, RA, Petty, CM, Xu, Y, Hayes, JP, Wagner, HR, Lewis, DV, Labar, KS, Styner, M, & McCarthy, G. (2009, November 15). Rebuttal to Hasan and Pedraza in comments and controversies: "Improving the reliability of manual and automated methods for hippocampal and amygdala volume measurements". Neuroimage , 48 (3), 499-500. Full Text Link to Item
  - Stanton, SJ, Beehner, JC, Saini, EK, Kuhn, CM, & Labar, KS. (2009, October 21). Dominance, politics, and physiology: voters' testosterone changes on the night of the 2008 United States presidential election. (Published online) PLoS One , 4 (10), e7543-. Full Text Open Access Copy Link to Item
  - Huff, NC, Hernandez, JA, Blanding, NQ, & LaBar, KS. (2009, August). Delayed extinction attenuates conditioned fear renewal and spontaneous recovery in humans. Behavioral Neuroscience , 123 (4), 834-843. Full Text
  - Dunsmoor, JE, Mitroff, SR, & LaBar, KS. (2009, July). Generalization of conditioned fear along a dimension of increasing fear intensity. (Published online) Learn Mem , 16 (7), 460-469. Full Text Link to Item
  - Morey, RA, Dolcos, F, Petty, CM, Cooper, DA, Hayes, JP, LaBar, KS, & McCarthy, G. (2009, May). The role of trauma-related distractors on neural systems for working memory and emotion processing in posttraumatic stress disorder. Journal of Psychiatric Research , 43 (8), 809-817. Full Text
  - Morey, RA, Petty, CM, Xu, Y, Hayes, JP, Wagner, HR, Lewis, DV, LaBar, KS, Styner, M, & McCarthy, G. (2009, April). A comparison of automated segmentation and manual tracing for quantifying hippocampal and amygdala volumes. Neuroimage , 45 (3), 855-866. Full Text
  - Pannu Hayes, J, Labar, KS, Petty, CM, McCarthy, G, & Morey, RA. (2009, April). Alterations in the neural circuitry for emotion and attention associated with posttraumatic stress symptomatology. Psychiatry Research , 172 (1), 7-15. Full Text
  - Fichtenholtz, HM, Hopfinger, JB, Graham, R, Detwiler, JM, & LaBar, KS. (2009, January). Event-related potentials reveal temporal staging of dynamic facial expression and gaze shift effects on attentional orienting. Social Neuroscience , 4 (4), 317-331. Full Text
  - Thomas, LA, & LaBar, KS. (2008, October). Fear relevancy, strategy use, and probabilistic learning of cue-outcome associations. (Published online) Learn Mem , 15 (10), 777-784. Full Text Link to Item
  - St Jacques, P, Rubin, DC, LaBar, KS, & Cabeza, R. (2008, July). The short and long of it: neural correlates of temporal-order memory for autobiographical events. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience , 20 (7), 1327-1341. Full Text Open Access Copy
  - Wang, L, LaBar, KS, Smoski, M, Rosenthal, MZ, Dolcos, F, Lynch, TR, Krishnan, RR, & McCarthy, G. (2008, July). Prefrontal mechanisms for executive control over emotional distraction are altered in major depression. Psychiatry Research , 163 (2), 143-155. Full Text
  - Doty, TJ, Payne, ME, Steffens, DC, Beyer, JL, Krishnan, KRR, & LaBar, KS. (2008, May). Age-dependent reduction of amygdala volume in bipolar disorder. Psychiatry Research , 163 (1), 84-94. Full Text
  - Daselaar, SM, Rice, HJ, Greenberg, DL, Cabeza, R, LaBar, KS, & Rubin, DC. (2008, January). The spatiotemporal dynamics of autobiographical memory: neural correlates of recall, emotional intensity, and reliving. Cerebral Cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) , 18 (1), 217-229. Full Text Open Access Copy
  - Morey, RA, Petty, CM, Cooper, DA, Labar, KS, & McCarthy, G. (2008, January). Neural systems for executive and emotional processing are modulated by symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder in Iraq War veterans. Psychiatry Research , 162 (1), 59-72. Full Text
  - Fichtenholtz, HM, Hopfinger, JB, Graham, R, Detwiler, JM, & LaBar, KS. (2007, December). Happy and fearful emotion in cues and targets modulate event-related potential indices of gaze-directed attentional orienting. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience , 2 (4), 323-333. Full Text
  - Zucker, NL, Losh, M, Bulik, CM, LaBar, KS, Piven, J, & Pelphrey, KA. (2007, November). Anorexia nervosa and autism spectrum disorders: guided investigation of social cognitive endophenotypes. Psychological Bulletin , 133 (6), 976-1006. (Review) Full Text
  - Thomas, LA, De Bellis, MD, Graham, R, & LaBar, KS. (2007, September). Development of emotional facial recognition in late childhood and adolescence. Developmental Science , 10 (5), 547-558. Full Text
  - Pelphrey, KA, Morris, JP, McCarthy, G, & Labar, KS. (2007, June). Perception of dynamic changes in facial affect and identity in autism. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience , 2 (2), 140-149. Full Text
  - Dillon, DG, Ritchey, M, Johnson, BD, & LaBar, KS. (2007, May). Dissociable effects of conscious emotion regulation strategies on explicit and implicit memory. Emotion (Washington, D.C.) , 7 (2), 354-365. Full Text
  - Graham, R, & LaBar, KS. (2007, May). Garner interference reveals dependencies between emotional expression and gaze in face perception. Emotion (Washington, D.C.) , 7 (2), 296-313. Full Text
  - Schmajuk, NA, Larrauri, JA, & Labar, KS. (2007, February). Reinstatement of conditioned fear and the hippocampus: an attentional-associative model. Behavioural Brain Research , 177 (2), 242-253. Full Text
  - Graham, R, Devinsky, O, & Labar, KS. (2007, January 7). Quantifying deficits in the perception of fear and anger in morphed facial expressions after bilateral amygdala damage. Neuropsychologia , 45 (1), 42-54. Full Text Link to Item
  - Labar, KS. (2007, January). Beyond Fear Emotional Memory Mechanisms in the Human Brain. Current Directions in Psychological Science , 16 (4), 173-177. Full Text
  - Wang, L, LaBar, KS, & McCarthy, G. (2006, November 15). Mood alters amygdala activation to sad distractors during an attentional task. Biol Psychiatry , 60 (10), 1139-1146. Full Text Link to Item
  - Dillon, DG, Cooper, JJ, Grent-'t-Jong, T, Woldorff, MG, & LaBar, KS. (2006, October). Dissociation of event-related potentials indexing arousal and semantic cohesion during emotional word encoding. Brain and Cognition , 62 (1), 43-57. Full Text
  - Zorawski, M, Blanding, NQ, Kuhn, CM, & LaBar, KS. (2006, July). Effects of stress and sex on acquisition and consolidation of human fear conditioning. Learn Mem , 13 (4), 441-450. Full Text Link to Item
  - Graham, R, Devinsky, O, & LaBar, KS. (2006, January). Sequential ordering of morphed faces and facial expressions following temporal lobe damage. Neuropsychologia , 44 (8), 1398-1405. Full Text
  - LaBar, KS, & Cabeza, R. (2006, January). Cognitive neuroscience of emotional memory. Nature Reviews. Neuroscience , 7 (1), 54-64. (Review) Full Text
  - Dillon, DG, & LaBar, KS. (2005, August). Startle modulation during conscious emotion regulation is arousal-dependent. Behavioral Neuroscience , 119 (4), 1118-1124. Full Text
  - LaBar, KS, & Phelps, EA. (2005, June). Reinstatement of conditioned fear in humans is context dependent and impaired in amnesia. Behavioral Neuroscience , 119 (3), 677-686. Full Text
  - Zorawski, M, Cook, CA, Kuhn, CM, & LaBar, KS. (2005, June). Sex, stress, and fear: individual differences in conditioned learning. Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci , 5 (2), 191-201. Link to Item
  - Wang, L, McCarthy, G, Song, AW, & Labar, KS. (2005, March). Amygdala activation to sad pictures during high-field (4 tesla) functional magnetic resonance imaging. Emotion , 5 (1), 12-22. Full Text Link to Item
  - Dolcos, F, LaBar, KS, & Cabeza, R. (2005, February 9). Remembering one year later: role of the amygdala and the medial temporal lobe memory system in retrieving emotional memories. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America , 102 (7), 2626-2631. Full Text
  - Greenberg, DL, Rice, HJ, Cooper, JJ, Cabeza, R, Rubin, DC, & Labar, KS. (2005, January). Co-activation of the amygdala, hippocampus and inferior frontal gyrus during autobiographical memory retrieval. Neuropsychologia , 43 (5), 659-674. Full Text Open Access Copy
  - LaBar, KS, Torpey, DC, Cook, CA, Johnson, SR, Warren, LH, Burke, JR, & Welsh-Bohmer, KA. (2005). Emotional enhancement of perceptual priming is preserved in aging and early-stage Alzheimer's disease. Neuropsychologia , 43 (12), 1824-1837. Full Text Link to Item
  - Thomas, LA, & LaBar, KS. (2005). Emotional arousal enhances word repetition priming. Cognition and Emotion , 19 (7), 1027-1047. Full Text
  - Cabeza, R, Prince, SE, Daselaar, SM, Greenberg, DL, Budde, M, Dolcos, F, LaBar, KS, & Rubin, DC. (2004, November). Brain activity during episodic retrieval of autobiographical and laboratory events: an fMRI study using a novel photo paradigm. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience , 16 (9), 1583-1594. Full Text Open Access Copy
  - Labar, KS, Cook, CA, Torpey, DC, & Welsh-Bohmer, KA. (2004, October). Impact of healthy aging on awareness and fear conditioning. Behavioral Neuroscience , 118 (5), 905-915. Full Text
  - Talarico, JM, LaBar, KS, & Rubin, DC. (2004, October). Emotional intensity predicts autobiographical memory experience. Memory & Cognition , 32 (7), 1118-1132. Full Text Open Access Copy
  - Dolcos, F, LaBar, KS, & Cabeza, R. (2004, September). Dissociable effects of arousal and valence on prefrontal activity indexing emotional evaluation and subsequent memory: an event-related fMRI study. Neuroimage , 23 (1), 64-74. Full Text
  - Dolcos, F, LaBar, KS, & Cabeza, R. (2004, June). Interaction between the amygdala and the medial temporal lobe memory system predicts better memory for emotional events. Neuron , 42 (5), 855-863. Full Text
  - Fichtenholtz, HM, Dean, HL, Dillon, DG, Yamasaki, H, McCarthy, G, & LaBar, KS. (2004, June). Emotion-attention network interactions during a visual oddball task. Brain Research. Cognitive Brain Research , 20 (1), 67-80. Full Text Open Access Copy
  - LaBar, KS, Crupain, MJ, Voyvodic, JT, & McCarthy, G. (2003, October). Dynamic perception of facial affect and identity in the human brain. Cerebral Cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) , 13 (10), 1023-1033. Full Text
  - LaBar, KS. (2003, September). Emotional memory functions of the human amygdala. Curr Neurol Neurosci Rep , 3 (5), 363-364. (Review) Link to Item
  - Paller, KA, Ranganath, C, Gonsalves, B, LaBar, KS, Parrish, TB, Gitelman, DR, Mesulam, M-M, & Reber, PJ. (2003, July). Neural correlates of person recognition. Learning & Memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.) , 10 (4), 253-260. Full Text
  - Rachbauer, D, Labar, KS, Doppelmayr, M, & Klimesch, W. (2003, March). Increased event-related theta activity during emotional scene encoding. BRAIN AND COGNITION , 51 (2), 186-187. Link to Item
  - Knuttinen, MG, Parrish, TB, Weiss, C, LaBar, KS, Gitelman, DR, Power, JM, Mesulam, MM, & Disterhoft, JF. (2002, October). Electromyography as a recording system for eyeblink conditioning with functional magnetic resonance imaging. Neuroimage , 17 (2), 977-987. Full Text
  - Yamasaki, H, LaBar, KS, & McCarthy, G. (2002, August 12). Dissociable prefrontal brain systems for attention and emotion. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America , 99 (17), 11447-11451. Full Text
  - LaBar, KS, Gitelman, DR, Parrish, TB, & Mesulam, MM. (2002, February). Functional changes in temporal lobe activity during transient global amnesia. Neurology , 58 (4), 638-641. Full Text
  - LaBar, KS, Gitelman, DR, Mesulam, MM, & Parrish, TB. (2001, November 16). Impact of signal-to-noise on functional MRI of the human amygdala. Neuroreport , 12 (16), 3461-3464. Link to Item
  - LaBar, KS, Gitelman, DR, Parrish, TB, Kim, YH, Nobre, AC, & Mesulam, MM. (2001, April). Hunger selectively modulates corticolimbic activation to food stimuli in humans. Behavioral Neuroscience , 115 (2), 493-500. Full Text
  - Parrish, TB, Gitelman, DR, LaBar, KS, & Mesulam, MM. (2000, December). Impact of signal-to-noise on functional MRI. Magn Reson Med , 44 (6), 925-932. Link to Item
  - Gitelman, DR, Parrish, TB, LaBar, KS, & Mesulam, MM. (2000, January). Real-time monitoring of eye movements using infrared video-oculography during functional magnetic resonance imaging of the frontal eye fields. Neuroimage , 11 (1), 58-65. Full Text Link to Item
  - LaBar, KS, Mesulam, M, Gitelman, DR, & Weintraub, S. (2000, January). Emotional curiosity: modulation of visuospatial attention by arousal is preserved in aging and early-stage Alzheimer's disease. Neuropsychologia , 38 (13), 1734-1740. Full Text
  - LaBar, KS, Gitelman, DR, Parrish, TB, & Mesulam, M. (1999, December). Neuroanatomic overlap of working memory and spatial attention networks: a functional MRI comparison within subjects. Neuroimage , 10 (6), 695-704. Full Text
  - Gitelman, DR, Nobre, AC, Parrish, TB, LaBar, KS, Kim, YH, Meyer, JR, & Mesulam, M. (1999, June). A large-scale distributed network for covert spatial attention: further anatomical delineation based on stringent behavioural and cognitive controls. Brain : a Journal of Neurology , 122 ( Pt 6) , 1093-1106. Full Text
  - Kim, YH, Gitelman, DR, Nobre, AC, Parrish, TB, LaBar, KS, & Mesulam, MM. (1999, March). The large-scale neural network for spatial attention displays multifunctional overlap but differential asymmetry. Neuroimage , 9 (3), 269-277. Full Text Link to Item
  - LaBar, KS, & Phelps, EA. (1998, November). Arousal-Mediated Memory Consolidation: Role of the Medial Temporal Lobe in Humans. Psychological Science , 9 (6), 490-493. Full Text
  - LaBar, KS, Gatenby, JC, Gore, JC, LeDoux, JE, & Phelps, EA. (1998, May). Human amygdala activation during conditioned fear acquisition and extinction: a mixed-trial fMRI study. Neuron , 20 (5), 937-945. Full Text
  - LaBar, KS, & Disterhoft, JF. (1998, January). Conditioning, awareness, and the hippocampus. Hippocampus , 8 (6), 620-626. (Review) Full Text
  - Phelps, EA, Labar, KS, Anderson, AK, O'Connor, KJ, Fulbright, RK, & Spencer, DD. (1998). Specifying the contributions of the human amygdala to emotional memory: A case study. Neurocase , 4 (6), 527-540. Full Text
  - Phelps, EA, LaBar, KS, & Spencer, DD. (1997, October). Memory for emotional words following unilateral temporal lobectomy. Brain and Cognition , 35 (1), 85-109. Full Text
  - Hyder, F, Phelps, EA, Wiggins, CJ, Labar, KS, Blamire, AM, & Shulman, RG. (1997, June 24). "Willed action": a functional MRI study of the human prefrontal cortex during a sensorimotor task. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A , 94 (13), 6989-6994. Link to Item
  - LaBar, KS, & LeDoux, JE. (1996, October). Partial disruption of fear conditioning in rats with unilateral amygdala damage: correspondence with unilateral temporal lobectomy in humans. Behav Neurosci , 110 (5), 991-997. Link to Item
  - LaBar, KS, LeDoux, JE, Spencer, DD, & Phelps, EA. (1995, October). Impaired fear conditioning following unilateral temporal lobectomy in humans. The Journal of Neuroscience : the Official Journal of the Society for Neuroscience , 15 (10), 6846-6855. Full Text
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