Picower Professor of Neuroscience at MIT https://nitter.gq/t.co/UoEeD2FzEY Co-founder, Neuroblox https://nitter.gq/t.co/o6wosMSGen
Cambridge, MA
Joined May 2011
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Earl K. Miller retweeted
WMBR 88.1 FM in Cambridge is putting our new single, Perceptual Echo, in rotation. But you don't have to wait. You can listen now.
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Each part echoes another, like the waves of perceptual echoes that reverberate around the brain after sensory input.
New paper! Theta as a master clock. It couples to relevant spiking, direct information flow and has nested cross-frequency interactions with beta and gamma oscillations.
Theta-based organization of information in the frontal cortex
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Konrad Kording @KordingLab and Earl Miller. Kumbaya. – at Pennsylvania, USA
Evan's work is awesome. Check out all of his interviews. Nothing crude about it. Ignore that comment by @MillerLabMIT. He's just a nattering nabob of negativism.
Someone is taking bits and pieces from my online lectures and crudely splicing them together into YouTube videos. Shouldn't I get paid for this?
Your Brain Isn't Wires. It's Waves. - YouTube
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Earl K. Miller retweeted
Nice work! See this paper from our lab earlier this year showing that one-shot perceptual learning-induced activity change onsets in IT before early visual ctx, the underlying plasticity likely residing in IT, and an ANN model capturing this phenomenon.
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Single trial learning: Same pixels, new perception. 🧠
Researchers uncovered the neuronal mechanisms underlying the “aha!” moment. We recorded the activity of >1,000 human neurons to explore how rapid learning reshapes what we see—and what AI might learn from it.
The picture didn’t change. The brain did.
Armendariz et al, Nature Neuroscience 2026. Read more here:
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Mentees, colleagues, friends share remembrances of Susumu Tonegawa news.mit.edu/2026/sharing-re…
Anesthesia doesn’t just dampen brain activity. It reorganizes how waves travel across the cortex, differently for different frequencies.
State-dependent, frequency-specific modulation of electrocortical traveling waves by anesthesia
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Brain-like robustness likely comes from feedback and randomness working together
Robust inference via top-down feedback and neural variability in recurrent vision models
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What can machine learning discover about the nature of emotion?
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Interesting. This paper proposes that advanced civilizations are rare because two steps, creating a genetic code and creating language, are difficult. So only a tiny fraction of life becomes advanced enough to travel into space
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Theta rhythms helps consolidate memories.
Theta-frequency sensory entrainment promotes episodic memory consolidation
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We are finding that theta acts as a master clock that helps coordinate higher-frequency rhythms.
Broschard et al (2026) Theta-based organization of information in the frontal cortex. Cell Reports, in press.
Preprint: doi.org/10.64898/2026.06.03.…
Circuit mechanisms for disentangled representations and generalization in the hippocampus
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Earl K. Miller retweeted
Honoring Susumu Tonegawa, a pioneering molecular biologist whose discoveries transformed immunology and neuroscience. A 1987 Nobel laureate, he advanced our understanding of antibody diversity, learning, and memory. Read the PNAS Retrospective: ow.ly/zORA5102cfh
ALT Honoring the life of Susumu Tonegawa
It’s not which neurons fire. It’s the geometry of their activity patterns. The piriform cortex doesn’t just store odor “labels.” It continually reshapes that geometry to encode odors.
Representational manifolds in olfactory cortex
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A recent example of this subspace geometry:
Li, H., Chrysanthidis, N., Brincat, S.L., Rose, J. and Miller, E.K. (2026) Neural subspace reorganization reflects value-based decision making. iScience, doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2026.…
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