@MillerLabMIT

Picower Professor of Neuroscience at MIT https://xitter.cf/t.co/UoEeD2FzEY Co-founder, Neuroblox https://xitter.cf/t.co/o6wosMSGen

 Cambridge, MA
ekmillerlab.mit.edu/
Joined May 2011
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Micah G. Allen
@micahgallenOct 20
WaveSpace is a Python tool for analyzing and simulating cortical traveling waves. joss.theoj.org/papers/10.211…
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Micah G. Allen
@micahgallenOct 16
Hippocampal neurons encode space and memory in theta phase, even when their firing rate does not change. biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…
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This paper changed my life: A first glimpse into the ‘middle’ of brain processing thetransmitter.org/this-pape… ✍️ @MillerLabMIT via @_TheTransmitter 👉 MIT neuroscientist Earl K. Miller reflects on a seminal 1985 study by Jeffrey Moran and Robert Desimone which proved that monkeys could focus cognitive attention on different visual stimuli without physically moving their gaze. 👉 This ground-breaking discovery demonstrated that top-down, goal-directed feedback actively modulates how sensory neurons process identical physical inputs, marking a foundational milestone that helped launch the modern field of systems and cognitive neuroscience. 💡 By highlighting a study where the brain's internal focus overrode raw sensory data, Miller illustrates that true intelligence has always been an active act of top-down filtration rather than passive information absorption. @Corix_JC @TheAIObserverX @maponi @JagersbergKnut @ahier @ChuckDBrooks @Shi4Tech @CEO_AISOMA @sallyeaves @ThEiLe0 @rvp @dinisguarda @TarakRindani @FrRonconii @Ym78200 @Nicochan33 @Khulood_Almani @TysonLester @SusanHayes_ @EstelaMandela @JoannMoretti @sulefati7 @FernandaKellner @pchamard @NeiraOsci @darioandriani @ALouiseLavalett @Fabriziobustama @amalmerzouk @arlenenewbigg @mikeflache @RLDI_Lamy @smaksked @Eli_Krumova @PVynckier @chidambara09 @sminaev2015 @Analytics_699 @NathaliaLeHen @MHcommunicate @DanielleLargier

A first glimpse into the ‘middle’ of brain processing

Work by Moran and Desimone showed that monkeys could focus their attention on different stimuli in their visual field without shifting their gaze.

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Study led by Leyla Akay in the lab of Li-Huei Tsai: cell.com/cell-stem-cell/abst…

Genome-wide CRISPR screen reveals that Wnt signaling regulates lipid accumulation in APOE4 oligod...

Akay et al. use a genome-wide CRISPR screen to identify Wnt signaling as a regulator of lipid accumulation in APOE4 oligodendrocytes. Stimulating Wnt signaling by inhibiting GSK3B reduced lipid...

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@micahgallenOct 12
Conscious flicker awareness is linked to brain-wide rhythmic coordination of cortical activity. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/4283…
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WaveClub@WaveClubSeminarOct 5
We can't wait to hear from Dr. Ryan Raut this week in our monthly online seminar series on traveling waves! @ryanvraut Join us this Wednesday, October 7th at 12pm ET
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Taylor Lorenz
@TaylorLorenzOct 4
A lot of people should read this aeon.co/essays/your-brain-do…

Your brain does not process information and it is not a computer | Aeon Essays

Your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories. In short: your brain is not a computer

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Jordan Fish@jwordfishOct 4
Now more than ever: Your Brain Does Not Process Information and it is Not a Computer aeon.co/essays/your-brain-do…

Your brain does not process information and it is not a computer | Aeon Essays

Your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories. In short: your brain is not a computer

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Micah G. Allen
@micahgallenOct 2
Awake sharp-wave ripples are not isolated hippocampal events but are embedded within nested brainwide rhythms, specifically coinciding with ~5 Hz visual cortical synchronization in immobile mice. biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…
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Micah G. Allen
@micahgallenOct 2
Beta rhythms function as a switch that alters hippocampal-prefrontal communication to meet the distinct computational demands of each task stage. This reveals how oscillatory dynamics coordinate across distributed networks to support different phases of cognitive processing. doi.org/10.1152/jn.00232.202…
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Quanta Magazine
@QuantaMagazineSep 30
Our brain waves have more complex shapes than we thought. Recently, neuroscientists measured a menagerie of traveling waves, including ones that look like spiraling vortices. quantamagazine.org/surprisin…

Surprisingly Complex Waves Reveal the Brain’s Inner Workings | Quanta Magazine

Unexpected patterns traveling across the human brain may be reorganizing its activity in real time.

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Luiz Pessoa@PessoaBrainOct 1
𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝘀𝗼 𝗵𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗼𝘂𝘀 (𝗮𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗺𝘆, 𝗺𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿)? Maybe it contributes to large scale dynamics. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2532072…
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ANUP DAS@NeuroAnupSep 30
Quanta Magazine highlights our work on Complex Spatial Patterns of Traveling Waves!! Check out our original article here nature.com/articles/s41467-0…!! #Neuroscience #Waves #ArtificialIntelligence #Cognition xitter.cf/QuantaMagazine/status/…
Quanta Magazine
@QuantaMagazineSep 30
Our brain waves have more complex shapes than we thought. Recently, neuroscientists measured a menagerie of traveling waves, including ones that look like spiraling vortices. quantamagazine.org/surprisin…

Surprisingly Complex Waves Reveal the Brain’s Inner Workings | Quanta Magazine

Unexpected patterns traveling across the human brain may be reorganizing its activity in real time.

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In six talks at our @AgingBrainMIT symposium Sept. 25, researchers from across MIT described projects aimed at advancing the understanding of and interventions against neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and ALS picower.mit.edu/news/symposi…
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General Bonkers@GenBonksSep 25
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💼We're hiring! We're looking for an Executive Director to help drive scientific strategy and research development while leading our administrative and financial teams. picower.mit.edu/about/career… #neuroscience #careers #jobs

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Micah G. Allen
@micahgallenSep 21
Anaesthesia fragments the emergent multiscale organization of neural dynamics, demonstrating that consciousness relies on how activity is structured rather than just its magnitude. By using dynamical independence to quantify these multi-scale relationships, the work shifts the focus from simple brain activation levels to the specific information-theoretic dimensionality of coordinated processes.
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Luiz Pessoa@PessoaBrainSep 21
𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘄𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 Neuroscientists now recording across the brain are finding what fMRI revealed in humans. Signals are not localized but often all over the brain. biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…
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Luiz Pessoa@PessoaBrainSep 19
𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻’𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴-𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝘀 𝗱𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝗱𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀? We find evidence of both smooth and sharp transitions; latter sharply altered brain dynamics in as few as 1 time step. Link below -->
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Granaio Git💣@GranaioGitSep 17
Replying to @MillerLabMIT
The increasing significance of these previously unknown communication pathways show that the brain connectome is several orders of magnitude more complex than the simple axon-dendrite synaptic model that dominated for decades. It's a solid foundation for EMF communication effects
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