Picower Professor of
Neuroscience
Associate Director, The
Picower Institute for Learning and Memory
The
Picower Institute for Learning and Memory and
Department
of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the
Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
Contact information
Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
voice:
617-252-1584 fax: 617-258-7978 secretary: 617-252-1790
Education
1990 Ph.D. in Psychology and
Neuroscience,
1987 M.A. in Psychology and
Neuroscience,
1985 B.A.
with honors in Psychology,
Current Positions
2003-present Picower
Professor of Neuroscience, The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory and
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
2001-present Associate
Director, The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
2009-present Co-Director,
2008-present Director
of Graduate Studies in Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
Past Positions
2002-2009 Director
(Thrust 5),
1999-2008 Investigator,
2002-2003 Professor
of Neuroscience, The
1999-2002 Associate
Professor of Neuroscience, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2000-2006 Director
of Graduate Studies in Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
1996-1999 Associate
Member, Center for Learning and Memory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1995-1999 Assistant
Professor of Neuroscience, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1990-1995 Intramural
Research Fellow, Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental
Health
1989-1990 Lecturer,
1985-1990 Research
Assistant,
1985-1989 Assistant
in Instruction,
1983-1985 Research
Assistant,
Awards and Honors
2009 Engineering Distinguished
Lecturer, National Science Foundation
2008 “An
Integrative Theory of Prefrontal Cortex Function” (Miller and Cohen, 2001)
designated a Current Classic by
Thomson Scientific as among the most cited papers in the field of Neuroscience
and Behavior
2007 Mathilde Solowey Award in the
Neurosciences
2007 Jeffrey Lecture in Cognitive
Neuroscience, UCLA
2006 Elected to the International
Neuropsychological Symposium
2006 Grass Lecture,
2005 Fellow, American Association
for the Advancement of Science
2003 Picower Professorship (endowed
chair)
2002 Elected to the International
Society for Behavioral Neuroscience
2000 Society for Neuroscience Young Investigator Award
2000
1999 Class of 1956 Career
Development Professorship (endowed chair)
1998 John Merck Scholar Award
1996 Pew Scholar Award
1996 McKnight Scholar Award
1996
1996 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow
1987 National
Research Service Award Predoctoral Fellowship
1986 National Institutes of Health
Predoctoral Training Fellowship
1985 Graduate
summa cum laude with honors,
1985 Phi Beta Kappa
2010 Editorial
Board, Neuroscience Research
2009 Co-Editor,
Experimental Brain Research
2008 Reviewing
Editor, Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience
2006 Senior
Editor, Journal of Neuroscience
2005 Reviewing
Editor, Journal of Neuroscience
2004 Associate
Editor, New Encyclopedia of Neuroscience
2003 Action
Editor, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
2002 Editorial Board, Cognitive Sciences, MIT Press
2002 Editorial Board, Journal of Neurophysiology
2001 Consulting Editor, Behavioral Neuroscience
2000 Editorial Board, Neuron
2000 Editorial Board, Cognitive, Affective, and
Behavioral Neuroscience
2009 Advisory
Board, National Institutes of Health Program Project,
2008 National
Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Advisory Panel for Basic
Research
2006 Scientific
Advisory Board, NeuroFocus, Inc.
2006 Scientific
Advisory Board, Polimetrica, Inc
2005 National
Institutes of Health Cognitive Neuroscience study section
2005 National
Institute of Mental Health Workshop on Social Neuroscience
2004
2003 Working Group
on Interspecific Chimeric Brains, Phoebe R. Berman Bioethics Institute,
2003 Advisory
Council, Department of Psychology,
2002 Advisory Board,
International Centre for Research on the Biology of Memory, Norwegian Research
Council
1999 Advisory
Council of the International Association for the Study of Attention and
Performance
1997 Steering
Committee, Boston Area Neuroscience Group
Publications
1.
2.
Siegel, M., Warden, M.R., and Miller, E.K. “Phase-dependent neuronal
coding of objects in short-term memory.” Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences, in press.
3.
Histed, M.H., Pasupathy, A., and Miller, E.K. “Learning substrates in the
primate prefrontal cortex and striatum: sustained activity related to
successful actions.” Neuron, 63:
244-253, 2009.
4.
Buschman, T.J. and Miller, E.K. “Serial, covert, shifts of attention
during visual search are reflected by the frontal eye fields and correlated
with population oscillations.” Neuron,
63: 386-396, 2009.
5.
Miller, E.K. and Wallis, J.D. “Executive function and higher-order
cognition: Definitions and neural substrates.” In: The Encyclopedia of
Neuroscience, Volume 4, Squire LR (Ed.), pp 99-104.
6.
Miller, E.K. and
7.
Meyers, E.M., Freedman, D.J., Kreiman, G., Miller, E.K., and Poggio, T. “Dynamic population coding of category information in
the inferior temporal cortex and prefrontal cortex” Journal of Neurophysiology, 100: 1407-1419, 2008.
8.
Loh, M., Pasupathy, A., Miller, E.K., and Deco, G. “Neurodynamics of the
prefrontal cortex during conditional visuomotor associations.” Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20:
421-431, 2008.
9.
Freedman, D.J.
And Miller, E.K. “Neural mechanisms of visual categorization: Insights from
neurophysiology” Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 32(2):311-29,
2008.
10.
Buschman, T.J. and Miller, E.K. “Top-down versus bottom-up control of
attention in the prefrontal and posterior parietal cortices.” Science, 315: 1860-1862, 2007.
11.
Miller, E.K. and Wallis, J.D. “The prefrontal cortex and executive brain
functions”. Fundamental Neuroscience, 3rd edition, 2008.
12.
Warden, M.R. and Miller, E.K. “The representation of multiple objects in
prefrontal neuronal delay activity.” Cerebral
Cortex, 17: i41-i50, 2007.
13. Fusi, S., Asaad, W.F., Miller, E.K., and Wang, X.J.
“A neural circuit model of flexible sensori-motor mapping: Learning and
forgetting on multiple timescales.” Neuron,
54: 319-333, 2007.
14. Miller, E.K. and Buschman, T.J. “Rules through
recursion: How interactions between the frontal cortex and basal ganglia may
build abstract, complex, rules from concrete, simple, ones” S. Bunge & J.
Wallis (Eds.), The Neuroscience of Rule-Guided Behavior, Oxford University
Press, 2007.
15. Miller, E.K. “The prefrontal cortex: categories,
concepts, and cognitive control” In: Memories: Molecules and Circuits, Research
and Perspectives in Neurosciences, Bontempi B., Silva A.J., Christen Y. (eds),
16. Miller, E.K. and Buschman, T.J. “Bootstrapping your
brain: How interactions between the frontal cortex and basal ganglia may
produce organized actions and lofty thoughts” In: Neurobiology of Learning and
Memory (2nd Edition), Kesner, R.P. and
17.
Cacioppo, J.T., Amaral, D.G., Blanchard, J.J., Cameron, J.L., Sue C.C.,
Crews, D., Fiske, S., Heatherton, T., Johnson, M.K., Kozak, M.J., Levenson, R.W.,
Lord, C., Miller, E.K., Ochsner, K., Raichle, M.E., Tracie S.M., Taylor, S.E., Young,
L.J., and Quinn, K.J. “Social
Neuroscience: Progress and Implications for Mental Health” Perspectives on
Psychological Science 2: 99-123, 2007.
18. Histed, M.H. and Miller, E.K. “Microstimulation of
frontal cortex can reorder a remembered spatial sequence” Public Library of
Science Biology, Vol. 4, No. 5, 2006.
19. Freedman, D.J., Riesenhuber, M., Poggio, T., and
Miller, E.K. “Experience dependent sharpening of visual shape selectivity in
inferior temporal cortex” Cerebral Cortex. 16: 1631-1644, 2006.
20. Muhammad, R., Wallis, J.D., and Miller, E.K. “A
comparison of abstract rules in the prefrontal cortex, premotor cortex, the
inferior temporal cortex and the striatum.” Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience,
18, 974-989, 2006.
21. Greene, M., Schill, K., Takahasi, S., Bateman-House,
A., Beauchamp, T., Bok, H., Cheney, D., Coyle, J., Deacon, T., Dennett, D.,
Donovan, P., Flanagan, O., Goldman, S., Greely, H., Martin, L., Miller, E.,
Mueller, D., Siegel, A., Solter, D., Gearhart, J., McKhann, G., and Faden, R.
“Moral issues of human-non-human primate neural grafting” Science, 309, 385-386, 2005.
22. Pasupathy, A. and Miller, E.K. “Different time
courses for learning-related activity in the prefrontal cortex and striatum.”
Nature, 433, 873-876, 2005.
23. Nieder A. and Miller E.K. “Neural correlates of
numerical cognition in the neocortex of non-human primates” In: S. Dehaene, J.
R. Duhamel, M. Hauser & G. Rizzolatti (eds.), From monkey brain to human
brain.
24. Nieder, A. and Miller, E.K. “Analog numerical
representations in rhesus monkeys: Evidence for parallel processing” Journal of
Cognitive Neuroscience, 16, 889-901, 2004.
25. Nieder, A. and Miller, E.K. “A parieto-frontal
network for visual numerical information in the monkey” Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences, 101(19), 7457-7462, 2004.
26. Miller, E.K. and Wallis, J.D. “Volition and the
prefrontal cortex” In: The Visual Neurosciences, Chalupa, L.M. and Werner, J.S.
(eds.), MIT Press, pp 1546-1560, 2004.
27. Freedman, D.J., Riesenhuber, M., Poggio, T., and
Miller, E.K “A comparison of primate
prefrontal and inferior temporal cortices during visual categorization.” Journal of Neuroscience, 23(12):5235-5246,
2003.
28. Nieder, A. and Miller, E.K. “Coding of cognitive
magnitude: Compressed scaling of numerical information in the primate
prefrontal cortex.” Neuron, 37, 149-157, 2003.
29. Wallis, J.D. and Miller, E.K. “From rule to response:
neuronal processes in the premotor and prefrontal cortex.” Journal of Neurophysiology, 90, 1790-1806,
2003.
30. Sharma, J., Dragoi, V., Tenenbaum, J.B., Miller,
E.K., and Sur, M. “V1 neurons signal acquisition of an internal representation
of stimulus location.” Science, 300, 1758-1763, 2003.
31. Wallis, J.D. and Miller, E.K. “Neuronal activity in
the primate dorsolateral and orbital prefrontal cortex during performance of a
reward preference task.” European Journal of Neuroscience, 18, 2069-2081, 2003.
32.
33. Miller, E.K., Freedman, D.J., and Wallis, J.D. “The
prefrontal cortex: categories, concepts, and cognition.” In: The
Physiology of Cognitive Processes, Parker, A., Derrington, A., Blakemore, C.
(eds.).
34. Miller, E.K. and Wallis, J.D. “The prefrontal cortex
and executive brain functions” Fundamental Neuroscience 2nd Edition,
Squire, L.R., Bloom, F.E., Roberts, J.L., Zigmond, M.J., McConnell, S.K.,
Spitzer, N.C. (eds.), Academic Press, pp. 1353-1376, 2003.
35. Miller, E.K., Nieder, A., Freedman, D.J, and Wallis,
J.D. “Neural correlates of categories and concepts” Current Opinion in
Neurobiology, 13:2:198-203, 2003.
36. Nieder, A., Freedman, D.J., and Miller, E.K.
“Representation of the quantity of visual items in the primate prefrontal
cortex.” Science, 297, 1708-1711, 2002.
37. Rainer, G. and Miller, E.K. “Timecourse of
object-related activity in the primate prefrontal cortex during a short-term
memory task.” European Journal of Neuroscience, 15, 1244-1254, 2002.
38. Freedman, D.J., Riesenhuber, M., Poggio, T., and
Miller, E.K. “Visual categorization and the primate prefrontal cortex:
Neurophysiology and behavior.” Journal
of Neurophysiology, 88, 914-928, 2002.
39. Dragoi, V., Sharma, J., Miller, E.K., and Sur, M.
“Dynamics of neural sensitivity in primate V1 underlying local feature
discrimination.” Nature Neuroscience, 2002.
40. Miller, E.K., Freedman, D.J., and Wallis, J.D. “The
prefrontal cortex: categories, concepts, and cognition” Philosophical
Transactions: Biological Sciences, 357, 1123-1136, 2002.
41. Duncan, J. and Miller, E.K. “Cognitive focusing
through adaptive neural coding in the primate prefrontal cortex” Principles of Frontal Lobe Function, Stuss,
D. and Knight, R.T. (eds.) Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp 278-291, 2002.
42. Miller, E.K. and Asaad, W.F. “The prefrontal cortex:
conjunction and cognition.” In: Handbook
of Neuropsychology, Vol. 7: The Frontal Lobes, Grafman, J. (Ed.). Elsevier,
2002.
43. Freedman, D.J., Riesenhuber, M., Poggio, T., and
Miller, E.K. “Categorical representation of visual stimuli in the primate
prefrontal cortex” Science, 291, 312-316, 2001.
44. Chelazzi, L., Miller, E.K.,
45. Wallis, J.D., Anderson, K.C., and Miller, E.K.
“Single neurons in the prefrontal cortex encode abstract rules.” Nature, 411,
953-956, 2001.
46. Miller, E.K. and Cohen, J.D. “An integrative theory
of prefrontal cortex function” Annual Review of Neuroscience, 24:167-202, 2001.
- Designated a Current Classic as
among the most cited papers in Neuroscience and Behavior
47. Rainer G. and Miller, E.K. "Neural ensemble
states in prefrontal cortex identified using a hidden markov model with a
modified EM algorithm." Neurocomputing, 32-33, 961-966, 2000.
48. Asaad, W.F., Rainer, G., and Miller, E.K.
“Task-specific neural activity in the primate prefrontal cortex.” Journal of Neurophysiology, 84,
451-459, 2000.
49. Rainer, G. and Miller, E.K. “Effects of visual
experience on the representation of objects in the prefrontal cortex.” Neuron, 27,
179-189, 2000.
50. Miller, E.K. “The prefrontal cortex and cognitive
control”, Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 1, 59-65, 2000.
51. Miller, E.K. “The prefrontal cortex: no simple
matter” (Commentary), Neuroimage, 11:447-450, 2000.
52. Miller, E.K. “Organization through experience” (News
and Views), Nature Neuroscience, 3:1066-1068, 2000.
53. Miller, E.K. "The neural basis of the top-down
control of visual attention in the prefrontal cortex,” In: Control of Cognitive
Processes: Attention and Performance 18
Monsell, S. and Driver, J. (eds.) pp 511-534, MIT Press,
54. Miller, E.K.
"The prefrontal cortex: Complex neural properties for complex
behavior." Neuron 22, 15-17, 1999.
55. Rainer, G.,
56. Miller, E.K. "Prefrontal cortex and the neural
basis of executive functions," Attention, space, and action: Studies in
cognitive neuroscience, Humphreys, G.W, Duncan, J., and Treisman, A.M. (eds.)
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1999.
57. Miller, E.K. “Straight from the top” (News and Views). Nature, 401, 650-651, 1999.
58. Rainer, G., Asaad, W.F., and Miller, E.K.
"Selective representation of relevant information by neurons in the
primate prefrontal cortex,"
Nature 393, 577-579, 1998.
59. Rainer, G., Asaad, W.F., and Miller, E.K.
"Memory fields of neurons in the primate prefrontal cortex," Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences 95, 15008-15013, 1998.
60. Asaad, W.F., Rainer, G. and Miller, E.K. "Neural
activity in the primate prefrontal cortex during associative
learning," Neuron 21, 1399-1407, 1998.
61. Chelazzi, L.,
62.
63. Suzuki, W.A., Miller, E.K. and Desimone R.
"Object and place memory in the macaque entorhinal cortex," Journal of Neurophysiology 78, 1062-1081, 1997.
64. Miller, E.K.,
65. Miller, E.K. “Neocortical mechanisms for visual
memory”. Scale in Conscious Experience:
Is the brain too important to be left to biologists to study?, Pribram, K. and
King, J. (eds.) Lawrence Erlbaum,
66. Desimone, R., Miller, E.K., Chelazzi, L., and
Lueschow, A. “Multiple memory systems in the visual cortex.” The Cognitive Neurosciences, Gazzaniga, M.
(ed.) MIT Press,
67. Desimone, R., Chelazzi, L., Miller, E.K., and
68. Miller, E.K. and Desimone, R. "Parallel neuronal
mechanisms for short-term memory,"
Science 263, 520-522,
1994.
69. Lueschow, A., Miller, E.K., and Desimone, R.
"Inferior temporal mechanisms for invariant object recognition,"
Cerebral Cortex 5, 523-531, 1994.
70. Miller, E.K. “Neocortical memory traces.” A
commentary on "Two functional components of the hippocampal memory
system" by Eichenbaum, Otto, and Cohen.
Behavioral Brain Sciences 17, 488-489, 1994
71. Desimone, R., Chelazzi, L., Miller, E.K., and Duncan,
J. "Neural mechanisms for memory-guided visual search, " Structural and Functional Organization of the
Neocortex, Albowitz, A., Albus, A., Kuhnt, U., Nothdurft, H.C., and Wahle, P.
(eds.) Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 279-285, 1994.
72. Desimone, R., Miller, E.K., and Chelazzi, L. "The interaction of neural systems for
attention and memory," Large-Scale
Theories of the Brain, Koch, C. and
73. Chelazzi, L., Miller, E.K.,
74. Miller, E.K. and Desimone, R. "Scopolamine
affects short-term memory but not inferior temporal neurons," NeuroReport
4, 81-84, 1993.
75. Miller, E.K., Li, L., and Desimone, R. "Activity
of neurons in anterior inferior temporal cortex during a short-term memory
task," Journal of Neuroscience 13, 1460-1478, 1993.
76. Li, L., Miller, E.K., and Desimone, R. "The
representation of stimulus familiarity in anterior inferior temporal
cortex," Journal of
Neurophysiology 69, 1918-1929,
1993.
77. Miller, E.K., Gochin, P.M., and Gross, C.G.
"Suppression of visual responses of neurons in inferior temporal cortex of
the awake macaque by addition of a second stimulus," Brain Research 616, 25-29, 1993.
78. Miller, E.K., Li, L., and Desimone, R. "A neural
mechanism for working and recognition memory in inferior temporal
cortex," Science 254, 1377-1379, 1991.
79. Miller, E.K., Gochin, P.M., and Gross, C.G. "A
habituation-like decrease in the responses of neurons in inferior temporal
cortex of the macaque," Visual
Neuroscience 7, 357-362, 1991.
80. Gochin, P.M., Miller, E.K., Gross, C.G., and
Gerstein, G.L. "Functional interactions among neurons in inferior temporal
cortex of the awake macaque,"
Experimental Brain Research 84,
505-516, 1991.
Invited Lectures
2010
Symposium at the annual meeting of the American
Psychiatric Association,
Plenary Lecture, International Conference on
Cognitive and Neural Systems,
The Frontal Lobes 2010,
Adler Symposium, Salk Institute for Biological
Studies
2009
Carlson Lecture,
Keynote Speaker, Meeting of the Comparative Cognition
Society
Engineering Distinguished Lecture, National Science
Foundation,
Ernst Strungmann Forum on Dynamic Coordination in the
Brain,
Neuroscience Seminar,
Banbury Workshop: “Searching for principles
underlying memory in biological systems”,
Invited address, Computational and Systems Neuroscience
meeting,
University of Minnesota Department of
Neuroscience seminar
Charles River Association for Memory
seminar,
2008
Conference on Memory and Neural Networks,
Longyearbyen,
Netherlands Neuroscience Institute Conference on
Perceptual Learning, Motor Learning, and Automaticity,
Keynote Speaker,
Shire Biopharmaceuticals Advisory Board Meeting – Guanfacine Mechanism of
Action in ADHD,
Seminar, Merck &Co., Inc.,
Neuroscience Seminar,
Cognitive Neuroscience Seminar Series,
Seminar,
"Emotions, Memories, Consciousness, and
Attention: Biological Approaches to Cognitive Problems" ,
Symposium in honor of Brenda Milner, Montreal
Neurological Institute
Cognitive, Computational and Systems Neuroscience
Seminar,
BrainMap
Seminar,
2007
Mathilde Solowey Lecture in the Neurosciences,
National Institutes of Health
Plenary Lecture, Japanese Society for Neuroscience
Meeting,
Jeffrey Lecture in Cognitive Neuroscience, UCLA
Meeting on Executive Functions,
Neuroscience Seminar,
Wisconsin Symposium on Emotion,
“Neurons, brains and
models: crossing levels of analysis in cognitive brain research”,
“The cognitive science of semantics”,
Neuroscience Seminar,
2006
“Memories: Molecules and Circuits”, IPSEN Foundation,
Invited Address, Annual Meeting, American Psychological Society,
Symposium on “Prefrontal cortex, Working Memory,
Flexible behavior”,
Learning Sciences Institute seminar,
Grass Lecture,
Neuroscience Seminar Series,
Neuroscience Colloquium,
“New Frontiers in Brain Science: from molecules to
mind”, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2005
Keynote Address, Human Brain Mapping Meeting,
International
Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience,
Fudan University Institute of Neurobiology Seminar,
International Neuropsychology Symposium,
Helmholtz Lecture Series, Helmholtz Research
Institute, Universities of
Colloquium, Max Planck Institute,
Symposium on Executive
Functions and the Frontal Lobe,
Keynote Address,
Motivational Neuronal Network meeting,
Computational Neuroscience Seminar Series,
Neuroscience Seminar,
Mind and Brain Colloquium,
Psychology Seminar,
Seminar, California Institute of Technology
Seminar, Harvard Mind, Brain, and Behavior
Initiative,
Course on the Biology of Memory,
Workshop on Schizophrenia,
2004
International Congress of Psychology,
American
Neurons and Memory, a satellite meeting of the
Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting,
Neural Control of Behavior Meeting,
Center for Visual Science Symposium,
Neuroscience Symposium,
Mind, Brain and Behavior Distinguished Lecture,
Symposium, Cognitive Neuroscience Meeting,
Course on Brain Science for Knight Science Journalism
Fellows, M.I.T.
Working Group on Interspecific Chimeric Brains,
Phoebe R. Berman Bioethics Institute,
Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience Seminar,
Seminar, University of
Seminar,
Seminar,
Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience,
Fred Attneave Lecture, Department of Psychology,
2003
Fyssen Colloquium, St Germain en
Department of Psychology Colloquium,
Center for Neural Science Seminar,
International Joint Conference on Neural Networks,
Symposium at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society
Meeting,
Department of Neuroscience Seminar, University of
NIDA Workshop on Developing Behavioral Treatments for
Cognitively Impaired Drug Abusers,
NIH Workshop on Executive Functions,
Roche Pharmaceuticals,
RIKEN Brain Sciences Institute Retreat,
John Merck Summer Course in Cognitive Neuroscience,
Cognitive Science Seminar,
Neuroscience Seminar Series, Mount Sinai
Neuroscience Formal Seminar Series,
Neuroscience Retreat,
Department of Psychology Seminar,
Seminar,
2002
UCLA Neuroscience Seminar Series
Symposium at the European Conference on Visual
Perception,
Seminar, Honda Research and Development Co.,
Meeting of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science (symposium organizer),
Institute for Cognitive Science Colloquium Series,
Helmholtz Club,
Sloan Seminar, California Institute of Technology
Neurobiology and Behavior Seminar Series,
Neuroscience Seminar,
2001
Society
for Research in Child Development,
Winter
Conference on Neural Plasticity, Antigua,
Gordon
Research Conference on Neural Plasticity,
International
Society for Behavioral Neuroscience,
Royal
Society Meeting,
Association
for the Study of Consciousness Meeting,
Rotman
Research Institute Seminar,
Memory
Research and Disorders Society Meeting,
Department
of Psychology Colloquium,
2000
The Frontal Lobes: In the Forefront of the
Millennium, Rotman Research Institute,
Symposium on the Cognitive Neuroscience of Attention
and Awareness,
Neuroscience Seminar,
RIKEN Brain Institute Summer Program,
Workshop on Executive Functions of Attention,
University of
Mini-Symposium on Visual Working Memory, ARVO Meeting
Neuroscience Colloquium,
Towards Animal Models of Attention and Consciousness,
Harvard Psychology Seminar
Department of Physiology Seminar,
Neuroscience
Seminar Series, National Institutes of Health
1999
Department of Psychology Seminar,
Neuroscience Seminar Series,
Attentional Processes in Selective Perception and
Working Memory, Satellite Symposium of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society
Meeting,
Department of Psychiatry,
Neuroscience Seminar,
Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience,
RIKEN Brain Institute Summer
Program, Japan
Brain and Machines Lecture Series, MIT
Stanford Neurosciences Program Annual Retreat,
Department of Psychology Seminar,
Conference in Cognitive Science,
Brandeis Summer Lecture Series in Neuroscience
1998
Workshop on Visuospatial Working Memory, Executive
Control and The Frontal Lobes,
International Symposium on Learning and Memory,
Attention
and Performance 18, The
Symposium
at the Annual Society for Neuroscience Meeting: Neural Basis of Working Memory
RIKEN
Symposium,
Cognitive
Neuroscience Society Meeting,
McKnight
Foundation Meeting,
Neuroscience
Seminar Series,
Winter
Conference on Brain Research, Snowbird,
Winter
Conference on Neural Plasticity,
Neuroscience
Seminar Series,
Zanvyl
Krieger Mind/Brain Institute Seminar Series,
Developmental
Neuroscience Seminar,
Neuroscience
Seminar Series, Center for Neuroscience,
Department
of Neuroanatomy Seminar,
Second
International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems,
Center
for Neuroscience Seminar,
Laboratory
of Neuropsycholgy Symposium, National Institute of Mental Health
1997
Novartis Foundation Meeting on Functions of the
Prefrontal Cortex,
Colloquium Series, MRC Applied Psychology Unit,
ONR Workshop on Cognitive Neuroscience, Marine
Biology Lab, Woods Hole
Department of Psychology Colloquium,
Neuroscience Colloquium Series,
Neurocomputation Seminar,
Pew Scholars Annual Meeting,
Department of Neurobiology Seminar,
Department of Psychology Seminar,
Department of Neuroanatomy Seminar,
Brain and Cognitive Sciences Colloquium Series, MIT
1996
Department
of Neurobiology Seminar, Weizmann Institute of
Department
of Psychology Seminar,
1995
Winter Conference on the Neurobiology of Learning and
Memory,
The Helmholtz Club,
Harvard Undergraduate Neuroscience Society
1994
Cooperation Forum for Multi-Disciplinary Researches,
Department of Neurobiology Seminar,
Third Appalachian Conference on Behavioral Neurodynamics,
Center for Brain Research and Informational Sciences,
Neural Systems, Memory, and Aging Seminar,
Third Workshop on Neural Networks,
Department of Psychology Seminar,
Joint Vision Laboratory - Cognitive Brain and
Behavior Seminar,
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences Seminar,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Neurobiology Seminar,
Department of Physiology and Biophysics Seminar,
1992
Section
on Neurobiology Seminar,
Neural
Systems Seminar, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Teaching (MIT):
9.02 Brain and Behavior Laboratory (Laboratory course required for undergraduate
majors. Primary Instructor, designed the course and student laboratories.)
9.012 Brain and Cognitive Sciences II (Core course taken by all BCS graduate students. Course
organizer and one of several primary lecturers)
9.011 Brain and Cognitive Sciences I (Core course taken by all BCS
graduate students. Course organizer)
9.011J Principles of Neuroscience (Several lectures)
9.401 Survey of Cognitive Science (Several lectures)
9.10 Cognitive Neuroscience (Several lectures)
9.30/7.98 Neural Plasticity (Several lectures)
MIT Committees and Service:
Animal Care and
Use Committee (1998 -2005): MIT's Animal Care and Use Committee oversees all animal research
affiliated with MIT.
Graduate
Committee (1998 - present): We oversee all policy decisions
regarding the graduate program in Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. I also oversee admissions to our graduate
program in Systems Neuroscience program and supervise the qualifying exam taken
by second year graduate students in Systems Neuroscience.
Director of the Graduate Studies in Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT
(1999 - 2006 ): I was director of our department's graduate program.
Supervisor,
Electronics Shop, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (1996 -
2004): I supervised the work of the
electronics shop staff.
Organizer,
Brain and Cognitive Sciences Faculty Seminar Series (1998 - 2001)
Thesis Committees: I have been on the
thesis committees of many students in the Department of Brain and Cognitive
Sciences and in Health Sciences and Technology
Education Committee (1999 - 2000):
The Education Committee oversees the curricula of the Department of
Brain and Cognitive Sciences.
Lecture at launch of MIT’s capital campaign, Spring 2000.
Lecture to MIT alumni for “MIT On the Road” program,
Organizer,
Plastic Lunch Seminar Series for MIT's Center for Learning and Memory (1999 - 2003)
Committee on an Interdepartmental Program in Neuroscience (2000): We were charged with constructing a new
interdepartmental graduate training program in neuroscience at MIT.
Director Advisory Committee for the McGovern Institute for Brain Research, 2000
Lecture
at MIT’s Technology Day, June, 2001
Associate
Director,
The
Lecture
at MIT’s Alumni Summer Course in Neuroscience, June 2003
Advisory
Committee on the Appointment of the Next Director of the McGovern Institute for
Brain Research, 2003
Neuroscience
Advisory Council, 2006-2008