Earl K. Miller

The layer 6b theory of attention cell.com/neuron/fulltex… #neuroscience

If you are interested in consciousness as information processing, yet want more insight as to how this differs fundamentally in humans from AI... then look at the novel work of @MillerLabMIT @AnnaCiaunica @MiTiBennett

It's all about the waves. The timing of LIP remapping is consistent with a wave of activity and brings into question the relevance of the pre-saccadic remapped response doi.org/10.1152/jn.000… #neuroscience

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Lindsey Power, Sylvain Baillet, et al: A neuroscientist’s guide to neural burst detection doi.org/10.1162/IMAG.a…

@MillerLabMIT @neuro_nasko Tam and I were part of the editor group that did a special issue on EM Field theories of consciousness. It's time has come. "What is it like to be ... Q. "a human being?" Q. "the EM field of a human brain? Are the same question. A. "Consciousness" frontiersin.org/journals/human…

Spiking and synapses are important, but the brain also uses electric influences. A historical review of ephaptic field research: from early foundations through contemporary renaissance doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.… #neuroscience

Happy "Cat-sual Fur-day"! The lab of Professor Myriam Heiman treated our whole building to a cat cafe featuring Torbie, Cleo, and Kinje. Hoomans also got Boba tea!

How Does Your Brain Know a Cat Is a Cat? A conversation with renowned neuroscientists Lisa Feldman Barrett and Earl Miller about categories, “folk psychology,” beginner’s mind, and thinking fast and slow nautil.us/how-does-your-… #neuroscience

Spontaneous behavior in freely exploring mice is not random wandering but a succession of self-directed tasks where low-level actions are sequenced to achieve high-level goals. cell.com/neuron/fulltex…

Dynamic organization is essential for cognition. Large waves of activity sweep across cortex, rather than many small local waves acting independently. Evolution uses what’s available. Here we have mesoscale sweeps of electrical influences. elifesciences.org/articles/100674 #neuroscience

@PostLinguistic And that's how they store information

@MillerLabMIT Synapses can’t store information, they can bias circuits.

New theory: Analog Cognition and Consciousness. Cognition may emerge from a dialogue: synapses store information, but brain-wide waves organize and compute, flexibly shaping neural activity into coherent thought and conscious experience. doi.org/10.31234/osf.i… #neuroscience

The prefrontal cortex controls memory organization in the hippocampus nature.com/articles/s4159… #neuroscience

Brain waves dynamics (EEG/MEG) were used to create precise maps of cortical activity. A geometry aware framework enhances noninvasive mapping of whole human brain dynamics nature.com/articles/s4155… #neuroscience

Dynamics of oscillatory power support the integration of perceptual and mnemonic information within the premotor cortex nature.com/articles/s4146… #neuroscience

Adaptation modulates effective connectivity and network stability doi.org/10.3389/fncom.… #neuroscience

The brain has an underappreciated communication system made of astrocytes that spreads electrical influences independently of spikes and synapses. Astrocytes connect specific brain regions through plastic networks nature.com/articles/s4158… #neuroscience

The brain can't be solved by a purely reductionistic approach. Reductionism in Engram Neuroscience pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC13… #neuroscience

Primate neuroethology: a new synthesis cell.com/trends/cogniti… #neuroscience

Support Sam Wang for Congress. We need a doctor in the House. Well, better ones. samfornj.org