Earl K. Miller

Picower Professor of Neuroscience at MIT
Neuroblox

[Earl K. Miller @MillerLabMIT]

Pavlov’s Dogz rehearsing for Friday's gig at the Pilot in Toronto. Get your tix NOW.
Pavlov's Dogz

Date: Oct 23 • 19:00

https://t.co/4GaDmMbeRD

[Earl K. Miller @MillerLabMIT]

Will you be at the Memory Disorders meeting in Toronto. Or in Toronto? Come see Pavlov’s Dogz, the legendary brain punks you've heard so much about. Friday night at The Pilot. Get yr tix NOW!
Pavlov's Dogz

Date: Oct 23 • 19:00

https://t.co/4GaDmMbeRD

[Earl K. Miller @MillerLabMIT]

@632nmPodcast @drmichaellevin @TuftsUniversity The problem is not emergence. That is a property of nature. The problem is treating it as an explanation, which *some* people do.

[Earl K. Miller @MillerLabMIT]

Neural networks in a dish can be trained to bias where their bursts start and to recover from errors.

Goal directed closed-loop training of network bursts in cortical cultures produces improved performance and error correction over days
https://t.co/OyJ9NeP4up
#neuroscience

[Earl K. Miller @MillerLabMIT]

"What" and "where" in frontal cortex, together again. In this case, in a relational code that ties objects to their arrangement.
A Relational Code for Objects in Primate Frontal Cortex
https://t.co/hdYq0A42tb
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[Earl K. Miller @MillerLabMIT]

@StuartHameroff Surprised to hear you say that.

[Micah G. Allen @micahgallen]

WaveSpace is a Python tool for analyzing and simulating cortical traveling waves.
https://t.co/YBMUmiHpYJ

[Earl K. Miller @MillerLabMIT]

Change the waves, change your mind. LSD weakens and speeds up two major brain rhythms associated with top-down control, alpha and beta.
https://t.co/ESQjGa6hcf
#neuroscience

[Earl K. Miller @MillerLabMIT]

New Results
Mechanistic simulation identifies predictive dose-dependent biomarkers of propofol anesthesia
https://t.co/N39NRa4tDC
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[Earl K. Miller @MillerLabMIT]

Symposium highlights MIT’s wide range of innovations for aging brain health
https://t.co/pHDRViAKZ8
#neuroscience @MIT_Picower

[Earl K. Miller @MillerLabMIT]

Theta, alpha/beta, and gamma show nested interactions in frontal cortex with theta as the master clock.
Broschard et al (2026) Theta-based organization of information in the frontal cortex. Cell Reports, in press.
preprint:
https://t.co/gSpsiBY8r4

[Earl K. Miller @MillerLabMIT]

Task-specific theta enhancement and domain-general alpha/beta suppression as oscillatory signatures of cognitive flexibility
https://t.co/jaurU7fkE9
#neuroscience

[Earl K. Miller @MillerLabMIT]

"WaveSpace is a modular Python toolbox for the
simulation and analysis of traveling wave dynamics in multichannel recording arrays."
https://t.co/Nf8lrD9YBE
#neuroscience

[Earl K. Miller @MillerLabMIT]

@bimedotcom @thaliafung @_TheTransmitter The brain reduces its processing load by generating predictions. The cortex is organized around dimensionality reduction. It makes those predictions possible.
https://t.co/7Fkp09CLHj

[Earl K. Miller @MillerLabMIT]

The claustrum contributes to working memory maintenance in mice
https://t.co/NaCOvs9zcR
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[Earl K. Miller @MillerLabMIT]

Memorial for Susumu Tonegawa. I’m glad they included the photo of Susumu and me in hardhats, touring our new building during construction. @MIT_Picower

[Micah G. Allen @micahgallen]

Hippocampal neurons encode space and memory in theta phase, even when their firing rate does not change.
https://t.co/xSHyc6560g

[Earl K. Miller @MillerLabMIT]

A perceptual echo may come from alpha-frequency resonance in thalamus-cortex loops. It can switch between ringing and non-ringing states

Thalamocortical network dynamics can explain visual impulse responses and perceptual echoes
https://t.co/ayZShaLl4t
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[BusinessIntelligence @bimedotcom]

This paper changed my life: A first glimpse into the ‘middle’ of brain processing
https://t.co/FGgQQMRxDK
✍️ @MillerLabMIT via @_TheTransmitter

👉 MIT neuroscientist Earl K. Miller reflects on a seminal 1985 study by Jeffrey Moran and Robert Desimone which proved that monkeys could focus cognitive attention on different visual stimuli without physically moving their gaze.
👉 This ground-breaking discovery demonstrated that top-down, goal-directed feedback actively modulates how sensory neurons process identical physical inputs, marking a foundational milestone that helped launch the modern field of systems and cognitive neuroscience.
💡 By highlighting a study where the brain's internal focus overrode raw sensory data, Miller illustrates that true intelligence has always been an active act of top-down filtration rather than passive information absorption.

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Study led by Leyla Akay in the lab of Li-Huei Tsai: https://t.co/02ZjKgV6wX