Picower Professor of Neuroscience at MIT https://xitter.twitterapi.xyz/t.co/UoEeD2FzEY Co-founder, Neuroblox https://xitter.twitterapi.xyz/t.co/o6wosMSGen
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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.
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.
generalbonkers.bandcamp.com/…
Each part echoes another, like the waves of perceptual echoes that reverberate around the brain after sensory input.
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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.
nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
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:
kreimanlab.com/code/rapid-vi…
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Mentees, colleagues, friends share remembrances of Susumu Tonegawa news.mit.edu/2026/sharing-re…
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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
Earl K. Miller retweeted
🪱🪼🪰There's still limited time to register for our daylong symposium "Comparative Neuroscience: Lessons from Biodiversity" Nov. 4. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F… @MITBiology @mitbrainandcog @ScienceMIT @MITevents
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We're remembering the transformative leadership of renowned neuroscientist Gerry Fischbach, who died Sunday at 87.
Fischbach founded the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI) in 2006, inspired the launch of our neuroscience collaborations, and provided invaluable guidance as a member of our board.
We will miss him dearly. bit.ly/4stovHV
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Join us Nov. 4 for "Comparative Neuroscience: Lessons from Biodiversity," our Fall symposium! What can we learn from the differences and similarities across the diversity of nervous systems that have evolved? picower.mit.edu/events/picow… @MITBiology #neuroscience
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Mentees, colleagues, friends shared remembrances of Susumu Tonegawa at an Oct. 16 memorial service. picower.mit.edu/news/mentees… @MITBiology @mitbrainandcog @ScienceMIT
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Perceptual Echo is dub-leaning, post-punk-tinged neo-psychedelic electronica from General Bonkers. It pairs deep, echoing low end with hypnotic, syncopated rhythms. Each part echoes another, like the electrical waves of perceptual echoes observed in the brain after sensory input
Earl K. Miller retweeted
WaveSpace is a Python tool for analyzing and simulating cortical traveling waves.
joss.theoj.org/papers/10.211…
Earl K. Miller retweeted
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.
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Study led by Leyla Akay in the lab of Li-Huei Tsai: cell.com/cell-stem-cell/abst…
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Conscious flicker awareness is linked to brain-wide rhythmic coordination of cortical activity.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/4283…
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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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A lot of people should read this aeon.co/essays/your-brain-do…
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Now more than ever:
Your Brain Does Not Process Information and it is Not a Computer
aeon.co/essays/your-brain-do…
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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…
