Cortical networks with multiple interneuron types generate oscillatory patterns during predictive coding doi.org/10.1371/jour... #neuroscience

Very cool result. “Humble” is so humble, it’s meta. #neuroscience

𝗜𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝘂𝘁❗️ Flexible decisions may emerge from the complementary interaction of different neuron types Happy to share it in @jocn.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social Check it out doi.org/10.1162/jocn... Many thanks to @earlkmiller.bsky.social @scottbrincat.bsky.social @abdoljabbari.bsky.social

Testing circuit-level theories of consciousness in humans doi.org/10.1016/j.ti... #neuroscience

Computational and Neuronal Basis of Visual Confidence doi.org/10.1146/annu... #neuroscience

Thanks to @pessoabrain.bsky.social and @thetransmitter.bsky.social for featuring our paper and to @aliyarumana.bsky.social and Peter Tse for engaging so generously with the ideas! 😊 www.thetransmitter.org/the-big-pict...

As an object moves across your field of view, the brain seamlessly hands off visual processing from one hemisphere to the other like cell phone towers or relay racers do, a new study by @earlkmiller.bsky.social in @sfnjournals.bsky.social shows. picower.mit.edu/news/how-bra... #neuroscience

New paper! Evidence for an active handoff between hemispheres during target tracking www.jneurosci.org/content/earl... #neuroscience

How the brain splits up vision without you even noticing As an object moves across your field of view, the brain seamlessly hands off visual processing from one hemisphere to the other like cell phone towers or relay racers do, a new MIT study shows. picower.mit.edu/news/how-bra... #neuroscience

Welcome to the MIT Consciousness Club sites.google.com/view/mit-con... #neuroscience

Starting now!

Interested in consciousness? Join the club. And join us tomorrow (noon on Zoom) for the first seminar of the MIT Consciousness Club. sites.google.com/view/mit-con...

Join us tomorrow (9/19) at noon by Zoom for the first seminar of the MIT Consciousness Club sites.google.com/view/mit-con... #neuroscience

Alpha for sustained attention, theta is the wanderer. Theta-rhythmic attentional exploration of space doi.org/10.1101/2025... #neuroscience

Rotational neural dynamics seem to be popping up more and more. Compositional neural dynamics during reaching doi.org/10.1101/2025... #neuroscience

Prefrontal Network Mechanisms of Psychiatric Deep Brain Stimulation www.jneurosci.org/content/45/3... #neuroscience

Orbitofrontal-Hippocampal State Coding Dynamics during Reversal Learning www.jneurosci.org/content/45/3... #neuroscience

Or, other access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Talk: Cognition is Emergent - Earl K. Miller Neuroscience and Philosophy Salon, 9-12-25 youtu.be/Sk4ehOcsDmM?...

Inactivation of primate cortex reveals inductive biases in visual learning www.cell.com/current-biol... #neuroscience

Album release: General Bonkers - Soundtracks for Imaginary Science. On all the major platforms. Music for science videos.

Neural evidence for modality-independent storage in working memory www.cell.com/current-biol... #neuroscience

What if we could design neurotherapeutics like we engineer a chip? We can! www.neuroblox.ai #neuroscience

Perceptual Bias in Motion Discrimination is Related to Asymmetric Interhemispheric Alpha Traveling Waves doi.org/10.1002/advs... #neuroscience

Not that it comes as much of a surprise to many of us, but it's worth emphasizing once again - the 👏 brain 👏 uses 👏 distributed 👏 coding 👏. 😁 Two new papers from the #IBL looking at brain-wide activity: www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience 🧪

The prefrontal cortex encodes task-identity information and flexibly adjusts its sensory processes as a function of the specific ongoing task doi.org/10.1371/jour... #neuroscience

New release from General Bonkers. "Coupling". Ephaptic, I assume. open.spotify.com/album/0ut2ps...

chatGPT, write my class description in the style of Hunter S. Thompson: Systems Neuroscience, a three-ring brain carnival with no exits. Theories spewed like mescaline visions at 3 AM in Barstow. You’ll get blasted with the twitching wisdom of Earl—professor by day, deranged tour guided by night.

I don’t think IIT is pseudoscience, but I do worry about the attitude that criticizing it could cause a 'consciousness winter,' or that other theories don’t even come close. It’s important to keep a little healthy distance from our favorite theories. bigthink.com/neuropsych/e... #neuroscience

New results! Similar destabilization of neural dynamics under different general anesthetics Different anesthetics induce unconsciousness through distinct mechanisms, but cortical destabilization may be their common effect. doi.org/10.1101/2025... #neuroscience

(link fixed) New theory: Categorization is Baked Into the Brain It is not at the end of sensory processing but a core computation that begins at the earliest stages, occurring throughout the cortex as predictive feedback shapes feedforward processing. #neuroscience doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Traveling waves exist and provide efficient solutions to fundamental computational problems. It seems likely that evolution embraced them. doi.org/10.48550/arX... #neuroscience

General Bonkers. Music for imaginary science videos. open.spotify.com/artist/2ywvq... generalbonkers.bandcamp.com/album/genera... @listigeplaylists.bsky.social

General Bonkers. Music for imaginary science videos. open.spotify.com/artist/2ywvq... generalbonkers.bandcamp.com/album/genera...

Big Think special issue on consciousness: The Mystery of Being You. Scientists are rethinking how we perceive ourselves — and the world. bigthink.com/collections/... #neuroscience

Inside the search for a universal signature of unconsciousness bigthink.com/neuropsych/u... "Neuroscientists like Earl K. Miller argue that the brain’s coordinated waves do the real work" #neuroscience @picowerinstitute.bsky.social @mitbcs.bsky.social

@matthiasmichel.bsky.social and I are pleased as punch to present the Fall schedule for the new MIT Consciousness Club. sites.google.com/view/mit-con... #neuroscience

Here's the schedule for the MIT Consciousness Club this year: sites.google.com/view/mit-con.... I'm looking forward to it! (Rooms will be announced soon; and we're currently working on a zoom option for those who would like to join online)

I gave a talk in 2009 about feature-based attention and a famous vision scientist asked how top down signals from PFC could possibly target the right sensory neurons. The best I could do was "uh, dunno". sunyoungp.bsky.social has a much more thoughtful answer journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

New theory: Categorization is Baked Into the Brain Categorization is not a late stage of sensory processing but a core computation that begins at the earliest stages, occurring throughout the cortex as predictive feedback shapes feedforward processing. doi.org/10.31234/osf... #neuroscience

There has been a burst of interest in bursts (sorry). High-gamma and beta bursts in the left supramarginal gyrus can differentiate verbal memory states and performance www.frontiersin.org/journals/neu... #neuroscience

A hierarchical multiscale model of forward and backward alpha-band traveling waves in the visual system doi.org/10.1101/2024... #neuroscience

Electromagnetic waves enable low-energy, parallel computation. Your brain has them. If humans can figure this out, 4 billion years of evolution could too. Programmable wave-based analog computing machine: a metastructure that designs metastructures www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience

Sad to miss #CCN2025. It will be the 1st conference where a PhD working w/ me will speak 😭 go see Lubna's talk (Friday) about distributed neural correlates of flexible decision making in 🐒, work done in collaboration w/ @scottbrincat.bsky.social @siegellab.bsky.social & @earlkmiller.bsky.social

Decoding Covert Visual Attention in Space and Time from Neural Signals doi.org/10.1146/annu... #neuroscience

Strategies to Decipher Neuron Identity from Extracellular Recordings in Behaving Nonhuman Primates www.jneurosci.org/content/45/3... #neuroscience

If robots can do it, maybe all drummers can aquire human-like behavior. Ha? Robotic drummer gradually acquires human-like behaviors techxplore.com/news/2025-08...

Interested in cortical wave dynamics? Check out our new preprint led by J Cruddas with @jchrispang.bsky.social where review the physics and physiology of cortical waves and their implications for psychological function: osf.io/preprints/ps... @nsb-lab.bsky.social

Peter Diamandis is pouring money into longevity treatments, blood transfusions, etc., but his friends say he’s constantly stressed and texts while driving 75 mph. See the problem? www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Consciousness Emerges From Neural Dynamics. My talk at The Science of Consciousness Meeting. July 9, 2025 (forgive the tech glitch at the beginning). youtu.be/y8zhpsvjnAI?... #neuroscience