Miller Lab at MIT

05/07/2026

Neuroscientist Earl K. Miller proposes a new way to think about how brain waves act as an organizing force powering cognition.

Neuroscientist Earl K. Miller proposes a new way to think about how brain waves act as an organizing force powering cognition.

05/06/2026

Cognition Arises From Neural Dynamics
Earl K. Miller at the SAGE Center for Study of the Mind
https://youtu.be/R-Twko7qDOE?si=1d5vFlzuDuJHlsUI

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05/01/2026

How Does Your Brain Know a Cat Is a Cat?
A conversation with renowned neuroscientists Lisa Feldman Barrett and Earl Miller about categories, “folk psychology,” beginner’s mind, and thinking fast and slow (Nautilus, May 1, 2026)
https://nautil.us/how-does-your-brain-know-a-cat-is-a-cat-1280394

04/29/2026

A new theory from the Miller Lab: Analog Cognition and Consciousness. We propose that cognition emerges from a dialogue: the brain's connections store information, but brain waves organize and compute, flexibly shaping neural activity into coherent thought and conscious experience.

Cognition and consciousness may arise from bidirectional interactions between neuron spiking and large-scale brain waves. We propose that, while synapses store memories, brain waves provide an executive-like control process that organizes millions of neurons into lower-dimensional, coordinated patte...

04/16/2026

It's a big mistake, anyway.
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04/13/2026

A new paper in Nature Reviews Neuroscience by Earl Miller and Lisa Feldman Barrett challenges decades of dogma about how and why the brain boils down what it sees, hears, smells, tastes and feels into categories.
News: https://picower.mit.edu/news/complete-rethinking-how-our-brains-use-categories-make-sense-world
Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41583-026-01036-2
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04/06/2026

A Miller lab discovery in the news.
What Anesthesia Does to Your Brain, According to a New Study.

Brain monitoring is uncovering surprising similarities among different anesthesia drugs.

03/26/2026

All 325+ Competing Consciousness Theories In One Video (and website). https://youtu.be/h5G6Oc_V3Lw?si=eN1GPJac4pa_lBC2
And check out our theory:
Miller's Brain Waves’ Analog Organization of Cortex
https://loc.closertotruth.com/theory/millers-brain-waves-analog-organization-of-cortex

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03/24/2026

Brain Simulation
Picower Institute researchers and collaborators are inventing versatile new models of the brain to accelerate neuroscience discoveries and biomedical advances.
https://picower.mit.edu/news/brain-simulation

Picower Institute researchers and collaborators are inventing versatile new models of the brain to accelerate neuroscience discoveries and biomedical advances.