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Earl Miller wins George A. Miller Prize in Cognitive Neuroscience

October 15, 2018

Paper: To understand cognition—and its dysfunction—neuroscientists must learn its rhythms

April 17, 2024
… April 17, 2024 Research Findings Paper: To understand cognition—and its dysfunction—neuroscientists must learn its … neurons, scientists argue in a new article. Understanding cognition and its disorders requires studying it at that … is to understand what a whole video on the screen shows. Cognition is much the same kind of emergent property in the …

In the brain, bursts of beta rhythms implement cognitive control

April 23, 2024
… Studying these bursts would improve understanding of cognition and clinical disorders, researchers argue in a new … in circuits but at the large scale required to produce cognition, millions of cells act in concert, driven by … make the case that bursts of beta rhythms control cognition in the brain by regulating where and when higher …

Consciousness

June 12, 2024
… yet, you are indulging one of its useful privileges: cognition. But how does your brain achieve your current … The crux of their findings is that consciousness and cognition require the transmission of information via brain … was absent outside the sensory region. Waves of conscious cognition If anesthetics knock brain waves out of a pattern …

As brain extracts meaning from vision, study tracks progression of processing

July 10, 2018
… from one to the other. This extends up to higher cognition.” The study not only refines neuroscientists’ understanding of a core capability of cognition, it also could inform psychiatrist’s understanding … focus (i.e. as if just judging “upward” or “downward”). Cognition in the cortex The broad distribution of activity …

Even after learning the right idea, humans and animals still seem to test other approaches, study suggests

February 18, 2025
… Center for the Social Brain at MIT. Research Article cognition , cognitive neuroscience , autism Print Share In … still seem to test other approaches, study suggests cognition cognitive neuroscience autism Higher Level Cognition Autism Spectrum Disorders Motivation and Behavior …

Earl Miller receives Goldman-Rakic Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Cognitive Neuroscience

November 01, 2016
… Neuroscience  for his work on the neural circuitry of cognition. The award presentation took place on Friday, Oct. … work has broken new ground in the understanding of cognition. Using innovative experimental and theoretical … . Original article>> Read more awards , Goldman-Rakic , cognition Print Share Related Articles Brain waves’ analog …

Mind to molecules: Does brain’s electrical encoding of information ‘tune’ sub-cellular structure?

May 22, 2023
… locations to further organize neurons for flexible cognition, a concept called “ Spatial Computing .” Other … Research Article oscillations , cognitive neuroscience , cognition , engram , Cellular and Molecular , molecular Print … Brain waves’ analog organization of cortex enables cognition and consciousness, MIT professor proposes at SfN …

Brain waves’ analog organization of cortex enables cognition and consciousness, MIT professor proposes at SfN

November 15, 2025
… People Brain waves’ analog organization of cortex enables cognition and consciousness, MIT professor proposes at SfN On … reams of experimental evidence have led him to propose: Cognition and consciousness emerge from the dynamic … different kinds of information to produce a new theory of cognition in the cortex: Spatial Computing . The theory …

The way sensory prediction changes under anesthesia tells us how conscious cognition works

October 07, 2024
… prediction changes under anesthesia tells us how conscious cognition works New study adds evidence that consciousness … the brain to remain prepared to attend to surprises. Cognition-oriented brain regions (generally at the front of … deactivates the top-down processes that that underlie cognition. It essentially disconnects communication between …

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