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Articles in the popular press featuring Earl Miller or Miller Lab work

The Scientist: “Cortical Crosstalk” (Oct 2009)

The Independent Mail (of Anderson, SC): “Down with Multitasking” (Oct 6, 2009)

ABC News: “We Learn More From Success, Not Failure. Neural Processing in the Brain Improves After Success, Researchers Show” (Aug 26, 2009)

ScienceDaily: “The Mind's Eye Scans Like A Spotlight: New Role Discovered For Brain Waves” (Aug 18, 2009)

New York Daily News: “Stop the multitasking madness! Attempting to do it all can cause neurological damage: studies” (Aug 13, 2009)
(Incidentally, I did not do the experiment I’m given credit for and no one says that multitasking causes neurological damage – so much for accuracy in journalism)

Daily Mail: Earl Miller quoted in “Is Multi-tasking Bad for your Brain? Experts Reveal the Hidden Perils of Juggling Too Many Jobs” (Aug 11, 2009)

Financial Times: "Learning Only from Success" (July 31, 2009)

Fox News: "We Learn from our Mistakes, Right? Wrong." (August 4, 2009)

MSNBC: “We Learn More from Success than Failure” (August 4, 2009)

Boston Globe: Earl Miller quoted in “Your Brain in Drive” (July 26, 2009)

Discover Magazine: Earl Miller quoted in “Building a Better Brain” (April 2009)

Earl Miller quoted in a Re/Max real estate brochure (Really!)

Earl Miller featured in the book “How We Decide” by Jonah Lehrer. Order from Amazon

New York Times: Earl Miller quoted in the Week in Review section - "The Flipper Challenges the Crawl" (Dec 21, 2008)

The Times (London): Earl Miller quoted in “Can Everyone Be An Einstein?” (Nov 16, 2008)

New York Times: Earl Miller quoted in "Multitasking Can Make You Lose...Um...Focus" (Oct 25, 2008)

National Public Radio's Morning Edition: "Multitasking in the Car: Just Like Drunken Driving" (Oct 19, 2008)

National Public Radio's Morning Edition: "Think You're Multitasking? Think Again" (Oct 2, 2008)

Earl Miller interviewed on Australian Radio about insight (Australian Broadcasting Corporation - 8/25/08)

The New Yorker: Earl Miller featured in The Eureka Hunt (July 28, 2008) Short summary Full article (PDF)

ABC News: Earl Miller quoted in “Newness Factor Weighs in on Brain” (June 25, 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 Neuroscience and Behavior (April 2008) Download the Miller and Cohen paper

USA Today: Separate brain areas rule concentration and distraction (March 27, 2007)

Scientific American: You May Not Have Rhythm, but Your Brain Does (July 19, 2007)

National Public Radio: Earl Miller comments on "A Home Design Conducive to Longevity" (Nov 10, 2007)

USA Today: Study may help develop ADD treatments (March 30, 2007)

MSNBC: Your Brain Knows When To Really Pay Attention (March 29, 2007)

Earl Miller featured in the book “The Genius Engine: Where Memory, Reason, Passion, Violence, and Creativity Intersect in the Human Brain” by Kathleen Stein. Order from Amazon See excerpt featuring Earl Miller

Earl Miller quoted in the book “More Self than Self: At Autism's Edge” by Henry Kong. Order from Amazon

Technology Review: Reverse-Engineering the Brain (July 11, 2006)

Boston Globe: MIT pools its brain power (November 30, 2005)

Earl Miller and Matt Wilson were guests on National Public Radio's The Connection (March 4, 2005)

Earl Miller was a guest DJ on WMBR (88.1 FM) in Cambridge

Primitive Brain Is 'Smarter' Than We Think, MIT Study Shows (Science Daily, March 14, 2005)

Number of the Beast (New Scientist, January 2004)

This Is Your Brain on Math (Dallas Morning News, July 18, 2004

New York Times: Earl Miller quoted in “Brain Scans Reflect Problem-Solving Skill” (Feb 17, 2003)

Hear Earl Miller talk about free will on German Public Radio (Hessen Radio, Feb 18, 2002)

Artwork highlighting our paper is featured on the cover of the Journal of Neurophysiology (July 2002)

Hard-Wired Math Skills (The Washington Post, Sept 9, 2002)

Evidence Adds Up That Monkeys Can Count (CNN, Sept 5, 2002)

Rewiring the brain (MSNBC, January 12, 2001)

Revealed: How We Know Fido From Felix (New York Times on the web, Jan 11, 2001)