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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 1d

No worries. Just fun.

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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 1d

I'm in a generous mood.

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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 1d

And if it were a nickname, it would be "Earlie", not "Early"

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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 1d

Beautiful and important work. But we should remember that brain function can’t be explained by connections and feedforward processing alone. They’re essential, but only half the story.

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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 1d

In this case, I think "nom de guerre" might be more fitting. 😁

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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 1d

BTW, for the record, my name is "Earl" not "Early".

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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 1d

It was proper. Thanks.

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The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT @picowerinstitute.bsky.social · 7d

Congratulations to Linlin Fan on earning a BBRF Young Investigator grant! 'Using all-optical methods, Fan’s lab will study whether and how serotonin modulates plasticity. bbrfoundation.org/content/brai... #neuroscience #memory

Brain & Behavior Research Foundation Awards 165 Young Investigator Grants to Advance Mental Health Research | Brain & Behavior Research Foundation

$11.4 million in two-year awards—selected from 895 applications—will fuel early-career breakthroughs in depression, schizophrenia, anxiety, PTSD, addiction, and more.

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The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT @picowerinstitute.bsky.social · 1d

Visually observing neural activity in freely moving animals requires identifying and tracking moving cells. In @elife.bsky.social the Flavell lab describes deep neural networks to enable this in a nematode worm (and applies some to jellyfish too!). elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre... #neuroscience

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JoCNForum @jocnforum.bsky.social · 1d

New post in @jocnforum.bsky.social by Early Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social: "Principles for proper peer review"

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Principles for proper peer review

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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 1d

I hear you and you are not wrong. I have done that. But I haven't yet made that routine and I'm not about to preach what I have not been regularly practicing.

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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks. I thought "review the paper in front of you" covered that but it is a point worth emphasizing.

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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 1d

For all the knucklehead reviewers out there.
Principles for proper peer review - Earl K. Miller
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Principles for proper peer review

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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 3d

Understanding the flexibility of working memory: compositionality, generative processing, anchors and holistic representations
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Redirecting

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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 5d

Electric fields shape biological structure. Is there any doubt they shape neural processing? Spoiler alert: No.
Field-mediated bioelectric basis of morphogenetic prepatterning
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Field-mediated bioelectric basis of morphogenetic prepatterning

The endogenous electric field of a simplified bioelectric network model of an embryo facilitates the autonomous formation of voltage patterns. Transient exogenous electric fields can leverage this pro...

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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 5d

Pre-stimulus beta power mediates explicit and implicit perceptual biases in distinct cortical areas
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Pre-stimulus beta power mediates explicit and implicit perceptual biases in distinct cortical areas - Communications Psychology

Two EEG studies in healthy human adults suggest that choice history and stimulus probability-induced biases in somatosensory perception are reflected in distinct prestimulus beta power modulations across distinct cortical regions.

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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 5d

Engrams Formed in Virtual Reality Exhibit Reduced Familiarity Upon Retrieval: Electrophysiological Correlates of Source Memory Retrieval Indicate Modality-Dependent Differences in Recognition Memory
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Engrams Formed in Virtual Reality Exhibit Reduced Familiarity Upon Retrieval: Electrophysiological Correlates of Source Memory Retrieval Indicate Modality‐Dependent Differences in Recognition Memory

The study examines whether the retrieval of virtual reality (VR)-engrams is more profoundly based on recollection than on familiarity compared to PC-engrams, and whether the encoding modality functio...

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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 5d

Categorization is not a specialty of one part of cortex. It is everywhere, "baked" into the brain.
Primary auditory cortex is necessary for the acquisition and expression of categorical behavior
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Primary auditory cortex is necessary for the acquisition and expression of categorical behavior

Cortical circuits support categorization, but how their contributions evolve with learning remains unclear. Krall et al. show that the ACtx is necessary for acquiring and expressing categorical behavi...

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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 8d

Your brain's two halves hand-off perception like a baton in a relay race.
Miller Lab Postdoctoral Fellow Matt Broschard talks about his new discovery about the brain's hemispheres.
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Sep 27: Tracking grizzlies in B.C., and more... | CBC Radio

On this week's episode: Hybrid blue jays, chimps' boozy proclivities, sea life on bombs, social media inherently awful and tracking B.C. grizzlies

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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 9d

Primate neuroethology: a new synthesis
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Primate neuroethology: a new synthesis

Neuroscience has probed only a sliver of the rich cognitive, emotional, and social behaviors that enable primates to thrive in the real world. Technological breakthroughs allow us to quantify these be...

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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 12d

Cortical networks with multiple interneuron types generate oscillatory patterns during predictive coding
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Cortical networks with multiple interneuron types generate oscillatory patterns during predictive coding

Author summary Predictive coding (PC) suggests that the brain constantly generates expectations about the world and updates these expectations based on incoming sensory input. While being a prominent ...

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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 14d

It hurts when someone else says it. 😁

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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 15d

For a class, I have grad students write a grant. One asked if they "had to cite old work, you know, from the from the 20th century"

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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 15d

Thank you. I just noticed that you cited a paper from my dissertation work. Nice to know that you are a history buff.

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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 15d

Very cool result. “Humble” is so humble, it’s meta.
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Marlene Cohen @marlenecohen.bsky.social · 15d

New preprint! How can you remember an image you saw once, even after seeing thousands of them? We find a role for humble mid-level visual cortex in high-capacity, one-shot learning. doi.org/10.1101/2025.09.22.677855 🧵🧪1/

Neuronal signatures of successful one-shot memory in mid-level visual cortex

High-capacity, one-shot visual recognition memory challenges theories of learning and neural coding because it requires rapid, robust, and durable representations. Most studies have focused on the hip...

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