Picower Professor of Neuroscience at MIT https://xitter.twitterapi.xyz/t.co/UoEeD2FzEY Co-founder, Neuroblox https://xitter.twitterapi.xyz/t.co/o6wosMSGen
Cambridge, MA
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Data Colada turns up more evidence of fraud by Gino. Cheaters tend to be serial offenders.
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Shared fluctuations in neural activity mark which information the brain passes along, allowing the same circuit or brain area to serve different purposes. This is consistent with the widespread mixed selectivity observed in cortex.
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When monkeys “count out” a number of actions, they seem to decide when to stop the same way brains make other decisions. Evidence builds up step by step until it hits a threshold.
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The Earl K. Miller First Generation Scholarship helps first-generation college students who face financial barriers. You too can support these students by making a gift.
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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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Timely, far-reaching theta waves help organize cognition, study shows
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#neuroscience – at Cambridge, MA
Brain Biomarkers
Brain disorders are notoriously mysterious. To improve diagnosis and to better measure treatment efficacy, Picower Institute labs are developing objective and minimally invasive indicators of brain health.
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19-45 Hz rhythm in the central thalamus looks like a signature of “conscious-like” brain states (awake and dreaming) as opposed to unconscious ones.
Thalamic oscillations distinguish natural states of consciousness in humans
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Direct human central thalamus recordings have identified a 19-45 Hz oscillation specific to conscious states (Chowdhury et al., 2026, nature.com/articles/s41562-0…).
Theories of the neural correlates of consciousness need to consider the thalamus.
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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.
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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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…
