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Earl K. Miller
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Earl K. Miller
@MillerLabMIT
- Neuroscientists successfully test theory that forgetting is actually a form of learning
- I just heard the sad news that Leslie Ungerleider has passed away. Leslie was a giant. One of the architects of our understanding of the cerebral cortex. She was an inspiration and a fabulous mentor. She will be missed.
- New result! We show what happens when anesthesia knocks you out and that we can wake up animals under anesthesia by stimulating their thalamus. I may be biased but I think that's pretty cool. biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…
- The more we look at cognition, the more rhythmic it looks. Attention rhythmically samples multi-feature objects in working memory
- My first tat. Halfway between Phineas Gage and music-blows-my-mind.
- “There’s three things you can do. You can just up and quit, you can stick your head in the sand (and act as if nothing has changed), or you can dig in and try to solve the problems.” Well said, @russpoldrack
- It has become increasingly clear that individual neurons are not the functional unit of the brain. Here's a review: Towards the neural population doctrine sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
- New paper! A universal pattern of brain wave frequencies. They are slower in deep cortical layers and faster in superficial layers. When something is this ubiquitous, you know it is doing something important. picower.mit.edu/news/study-rev… Work by @MendozaHalliday @alexjamesmajor
- New paper! Propofol anesthesia causes unconsciousness by making your brain more chaotic. It does this *increasing* inhibition, weirdly enough. Work led by @adamjeisen and @Leokoz8 A collaboration between labs in @MIT_Picower @mcgovernmit doi.org/10.1016/j.neur… #neuroscience
- A primer on the prefrontal cortex sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
- Working memory works better when neural activity is transient, rather than persistent. No wonder the brain does it that way. Recurrent neural networks with transient trajectory explain working memory encoding mechanisms nature.com/articles/s4200… #neuroscience
