Earl K. Miller

Picower Professor of Neuroscience at MIT
Neuroblox

[Earl K. Miller @MillerLabMIT]

Today's AI systems learn mostly by passively absorbing data, but the brain builds intelligence in the reverse order.

Grounded world models in biological organisms and future embodied AI
https://t.co/jIj7bfeoN7
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[Earl K. Miller @MillerLabMIT]

Neurons don't just fire more for important sounds, their activity becomes more precisely timed and rhythmic

Representations of spatial saliency in auditory cortex are selectively organized through temporal coordination
https://t.co/3gv0Mogazd
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[Earl K. Miller @MillerLabMIT]

New results: Anesthesia may disrupt consciousness by weakening how brain regions influence one another. This is uneven, which may help explain bursts of activity under anesthesia.

Disruption of interareal control during propofol anesthesia
https://t.co/QepGLzRpP8
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[Anna Ciaunica PhD @annaciaunica.bsky.social @AnnaCiaunica]

Universal rhythmic architecture uncovers two modes of neural dynamics | Nature Communications https://t.co/ICtu7UMAMU

[Earl K. Miller @MillerLabMIT]

Brain waves can act like holograms/radio signals. Traveling waves can carry spike-timing info, interfere like light waves in holography, and get processed in frequency stages.
https://t.co/aPp3bYE233
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[Earl K. Miller @MillerLabMIT]

@tymmesalab @plopesresearch Words to live by.

[Earl K. Miller @MillerLabMIT]

This started at a project to provide music for science videos. Then it took on a life of its own.
https://t.co/Jw4ICwE6FO

[Earl K. Miller @MillerLabMIT]

Lab & life
Composing a science life with music
https://t.co/vwtj2pYqK3
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[Earl K. Miller @MillerLabMIT]

@CarlosEAlvare17 Thanks. If you find such work, please post and I'd like to see it.

[Earl K. Miller @MillerLabMIT]

Want to know more about alpha/beta and top-down control?

Analog Cognition and Consciousness. Journal of Neuroscience, in press, https://t.co/pqWwRdAq9m

Oscillatory control of cortical space as a computational dimension. https://t.co/st857IFnaH

[Earl K. Miller @MillerLabMIT]

Are brain rhythms a steady hum or a brief buzz? Both. Alpha/beta is relatively sustained, helping maintain ongoing brain state, supporting its role in top-down control.

Universal rhythmic architecture uncovers two modes of neural dynamics
https://t.co/NzGXRrbJDb
#neuroscience

[Earl K. Miller @MillerLabMIT]

@StuartHameroff Dig your optimism, if not your threshold.

[Earl K. Miller @MillerLabMIT]

@_TheTransmitter Connections are important, to be sure. But they are less than half the story. Figuring out function by using connections is just kind of like looking at a paper map to see where traffic is flowing.

[Earl K. Miller @MillerLabMIT]

@StuartHameroff And how exactly would you settle that bet?

[Earl K. Miller @MillerLabMIT]

@venky1701 DM should work. If not, look me up in the MIT directory

[Earl K. Miller @MillerLabMIT]

Dinner with these geeks. https://t.co/OZ9rtjOcYa Board of Directors.

[Earl K. Miller @MillerLabMIT]

@venky1701 Sure!

[Luiz Pessoa @PessoaBrain]

𝗡𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹, 𝗺𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶-𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝗿𝗺
https://t.co/1Km5Aky28L

[Earl K. Miller @MillerLabMIT]

@InTime_49 We think that these patterns are controlled by low-dimensional wave dynamics

Miller, E.K., Brincat, S.L., and Roy, J.E. (2026) Analog Cognition and Consciousness. Journal of Neuroscience, in press, https://t.co/pqWwRdAq9m

[Earl K. Miller @MillerLabMIT]

Most neurons seem to be generalists, not specialists. Cortical circuits prioritize diversity over categorical structure.

Rarely categorical, highly separable representations along the cortical hierarchy
https://t.co/ItJc3NQioW
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https://t.co/6jkD3ipgXI

[Earl K. Miller @MillerLabMIT]

@InTime_49 This fits the idea that cortex represents information in low-dimensional patterns, with different signals separated by subspace geometry.