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Seger, C.A. and Miller, E.K. (in press) Category
learning in the brain. Annual Review of Neuroscience, Vol. 33.
Siegel, M., Warden, M.R., and Miller, E.K. (in
press) Phase-dependent neuronal coding of objects in short-term memory. Proceedings of the
Buschman, T.J. and Miller, E.K. (2009) Serial,
covert, shifts of attention during visual search are reflected by the frontal
eye fields and correlated with population oscillations. Neuron, 63: 386-396.
Histed, M.H., Pasupathy, A., and Miller, E.K. (2009)
Learning substrates in the primate prefrontal cortex and striatum: sustained
activity related to successful actions. Neuron,
63: 244-253 Read Smith, Narayanan,
and Laubach’s Preview article about this work
Miller,
E.K. and Wallis, J.D. (2009) Executive function and higher-order cognition:
Definitions and neural substrates. In: Encyclopedia of Neuroscience, Volume 4,
Squire LR (Ed.),
Miller,
E.K., and Wilson, M.A. (2008) All my circuits: Using multiple-electrodes to
understand functioning neural networks. Neuron 60:483-488
Meyers,
E.M., Freedman, D.J., Kreiman, G., Miller, E.K., and Poggio, T. (2008) Dynamic
population coding of category information in the inferior temporal cortex and
prefrontal cortex. Journal of Neurophysiology. 100:1407-1419
Loh, M., Pasupathy, A., Miller, E.K., and Deco, G. (2008)
Neurodynamics of the prefrontal cortex during conditional visuomotor
associations. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20(3): 421-431.
Freedman,
D.J. And Miller, E.K. (2008) Neural mechanisms of visual categorization: Insights
from neurophysiology. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 32(2):311-29.
Buschman, T.J. and
Miller, E.K. (2007) Top-down versus bottom-up control of attention in the prefrontal
and posterior parietal cortices. Science. 315: 1860-1862 The Scientist’s “Hot Paper”
for October 2009 Read Robert Knight's Perspectives article
about this work
Warden,
M.R. and Miller, E.K. (2007) The representation of multiple objects in
prefrontal neuronal delay activity. Cerebral Cortex. 17: i41-i50
Miller, E.K. and Wallis, J.D. (2008) The prefrontal cortex
and executive brain functions. Fundamental Neuroscience, 3rd edition
Fusi, S., Asaad,
W.F., Miller, E.K., and Wang, X.J. (2007) A neural circuit model of flexible
sensori-motor mapping: Learning and forgetting on multiple timescales. Neuron.
54: 319-333.
Miller, E.K.
and Buschman, T.J. (2007) Rules through recursion: How interactions
between the frontal cortex and basal ganglia may build abstract, complex, rules
from concrete, simple, ones. In: The Neuroscience of Rule-Guided Behavior, S.
Bunge & J. Wallis (eds.),
Miller, E.K.
(2007) 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),
Miller, E.K.
and Buschman, T.J. (2007) 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
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. (2007) Social
Neuroscience: Progress and Implications for Mental Health. Perspectives on
Psychological Science 2: 99-123.
Histed, M.H. and
Miller, E.K. (2006) Microstimulation of frontal cortex can reorder a remembered
spatial sequence. Public Library of Science Biology, Vol. 4, No.
5. Read commentary by Francoise Chanut
Freedman, D.J.,
Riesenhuber, M., Poggio, T., and Miller, E.K. (2006) Experience dependent
sharpening of visual shape selectivity in inferior temporal cortex. Cerebral
Cortex. 16: 1631-1644
Muhammad, R., Wallis,
J.D., and Miller, E.K. (2006) 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.
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. (2005) Moral issues of human-non-human primate
neural grafting. Science, 309:385-386.
Pasupathy, A. and
Miller, E.K. (2005) Different time courses for learning-related activity in the
prefrontal cortex and striatum. Nature, 433:873-876.
Nieder, A.
and Miller, E.K. (2005) Neural correlates of numerical cognition in the
neocortex of non-human primates In: From Monkey Brain to Human Brain, S.
Dehaene, J. R. Duhamel, M. Hauser & G. Rizzolatti (eds.)
Nieder, A. and
Miller, E.K. (2004) A parieto-frontal network for visual numerical information
in the monkey. Proceedings of the
Nieder, A. and
Miller, E.K. (2004) Analog numerical representations in rhesus monkeys:
Evidence for parallel processing. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.
16:889-901.
Miller, E.K.
and Wallis, J.D. (2004) Volition and the prefrontal cortex. In: The Visual
Neurosciences, Chalupa, L.M. and Werner, J.S. (eds.),
Sharma, J., Dragoi, V., Tenenbaum, J.B.,
Miller, E.K., and Sur, M. (2003) V1 neurons signal acquisition of an internal
representation of stimulus location. Science, 300:1758-1763.
Wallis, J.D. and
Miller, E.K. (2003) From rule to response: neuronal processes in the
premotor and prefrontal cortex. Journal of Neurophysiology, 90:1790-1806.
Wallis, J.D. and Miller, E.K. (2003)
Neuronal activity in the primate dorsolateral and orbital prefrontal
cortex during performance of a reward preference task. European Journal of
Neuroscience. 18:2069-2081
Bunge,
Freedman, D.J.,
Riesenhuber, M., Poggio, T., and Miller, E.K (2003) A comparison of primate
prefrontal and inferior temporal cortices during visual categorization. Journal
of Neuroscience, 23(12):5235-5246.
Miller,
E.K., Nieder, A., Freedman, D.J., and Wallis, J.D. (2003) Neural correlates of
categories and concepts. Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 13:2:198-203.
Miller,
E.K., Freedman, D.J., and Wallis, J.D. (2003) The prefrontal cortex:
categories, concepts, and cognition. In: The Physiology of Cognitive
Processes, Parker, A., Derrington, A., Blakemore, C. (eds.).
Nieder, A. and
Miller, E.K. (2003) Coding of cognitive magnitude: Compressed scaling of
numerical information in the primate prefrontal cortex. Neuron.
37:149-157. Commentary by Pessoa and Desimone
Commentary by Dehaene
Miller, E.K.
and Wallis, J.D. (2003) The prefrontal cortex and executive brain functions.
In: 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.
Nieder, A., Freedman, D.J., and Miller, E.K.
(2002) Representation of the quantity of visual items in the primate prefrontal
cortex. Science. 297:1708-1711 News and Views
summary by Dehaene
Miller,
E.K., Freedman, D.J., and Wallis, J.D. (2002) The prefrontal cortex:
categories, concepts, and cognition. Philosophical Transactions:
Biological Sciences. 357:1123-1136.
Freedman, D.J., Riesenhuber, M., Poggio, T.,
and Miller, E.K. (2002) Visual categorization and the primate prefrontal
cortex: Neurophysiology and behavior. Journal of Neurophysiology,
88, 914-928 View cover art
Dragoi, V., Sharma, J., Miller, E.K., and Sur, M. (2002) Dynamics of neural sensitivity in primate V1 underlying local feature discrimination. Nature Neuroscience.
Rainer, G. and Miller, E.K. (2002) Timecourse
of object-related activity in the primate prefrontal cortex during a short-term
memory task. European Journal of Neuroscience, 15, 1244-1254.
Miller, E.K.
and Asaad, W.F. (2002) The prefrontal cortex: conjunction and
cognition. In: Handbook of Neuropsychology, 2nd Edition, Vol. 7:
The Frontal Lobes, Grafman, J. (Ed.). Elsevier.
Wallis, J.D., Anderson, K.C., and Miller,
E.K. (2001) Single neurons in the prefrontal cortex encode abstract rules. Nature,
411:953-956.
Freedman, D.J., Riesenhuber, M., Poggio, T.,
and Miller, E.K. (2001) Categorical representation of visual stimuli in the
primate prefrontal cortex. Science, 291:312-316. Nature news article (PDF)
Miller, E.K. and Cohen, J.D. (2001) An
integrative theory of prefrontal cortex function. Annual Review of
Neuroscience, 24:167-202. Designated a Current Classic
by Thomson Scientific as among the most cited papers in Neuroscience and
Behavior
Chelazzi,
L., Miller, E.K.,
Miller,
E.K. (2000) The prefrontal cortex and cognitive control. Nature Reviews
Neuroscience, 1:59-65.
Rainer, G. and Miller, E.K. (2000) Effects of
visual experience on the representation of objects in the prefrontal cortex. Neuron,
27:179-189.
News and Views by Sekuler and Bennett
Asaad, W.F., Rainer,
G., Miller, E.K. (2000) Task-specific neural activity in the primate prefrontal
cortex. Journal of Neurophysiology, 84:451-459
Rainer G.
and Miller, E.K. (2000) Neural ensemble states in prefrontal cortex identified
using a hidden markov model with a modified EM algorithm, Neurocomputing,
32-33: 961-966.
Miller,
E.K. (2000) 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,
Miller,
E.K. (2000) The prefrontal cortex: no simple matter (Commentary). Neuroimage,
11:447-450.
Miller,
E.K. (2000) Organization through experience (News and Views). Nature
Neuroscience, 3:1066-1068
Rainer, G.,
Miller,
E.K. (1999) The prefrontal cortex: Complex neural properties for complex
behavior. Neuron, 22:15-17.
Miller, E.K.
(1999) Prefrontal cortex and the neural basis of executive functions. In: Attention,
space, and action: Studies in cognitive neuroscience, Humphreys, G.W,
Miller,
E.K. (1999) Straight from the top (News and Views). Nature, 401,
650-651.
Rainer, G., Asaad,
W.F., and Miller, E.K. (1998) Selective representation of relevant information by
neurons in the primate prefrontal cortex. Nature, 393:577-579.
Asaad, W.F., Rainer,
G. and Miller, E.K. (1998) Neural activity in the primate prefrontal cortex
during associative learning. Neuron, 21:1399-1407.
Rainer, G., Asaad,
W.F., and Miller, E.K. (1998) Memory fields of neurons in the primate prefrontal
cortex. Proceedings of the
Chelazzi,
L.,
Rao,
Suzuki, W.A., Miller,
E.K. and Desimone R. (1997) Object and place memory in the macaque entorhinal
cortex. Journal of Neurophysiology. 78:1062-1081.
Miller, E.K.,
Miller,
E.K. (1995) Neocortical mechanisms for visual memory. In: Scale in Conscious
Experience: Is the brain too important to be left to biologists to study?,
Pribram, K. and King, J. (eds.) Lawrence Erlbaum,
Desimone,
R., Miller, E.K., Chelazzi, L., and Lueschow, A. (1995) Multiple memory systems
in the visual cortex. In: The Cognitive Neurosciences, Gazzaniga, M.
(ed.) MIT Press,
Miller, E.K. and Desimone, R. (1994) Parallel
neuronal mechanisms for short-term memory. Science 263:520-522.
Lueschow,
A., Miller, E.K., and Desimone, R. (1994) Inferior temporal mechanisms for
invariant object recognition. Cerebral Cortex 5:523-531.
Miller,
E.K. (1994) 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.
Desimone,
R., Chelazzi, L., Miller, E.K., and
Chelazzi,
L., Miller, E.K.,
Miller, E.K.
and Desimone, R. (1993) Scopolamine affects short-term memory but not inferior
temporal neurons. NeuroReport 4:81-84.
Miller,
E.K., Li, L., and Desimone, R. (1993) Activity of neurons in anterior inferior
temporal cortex during a short-term memory task. Journal of Neuroscience
13:1460-1478.
Li,
L., Miller, E.K., and Desimone, R. (1993) The representation of stimulus
familiarity in anterior inferior temporal cortex. Journal of Neurophysiology
69:1918-1929.
Miller,
E.K., Gochin, P.M., and Gross, C.G. (1993) 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.
Miller,
E.K., Li, L., and Desimone, R. (1991) A neural mechanism for working and
recognition memory in inferior temporal cortex. Science 254:1377-1379.
Gochin,
P.M., Miller, E.K., Gross, C.G., and Gerstein, G.L. (1991) Functional
interactions among neurons in inferior temporal cortex of the awake macaque. Experimental
Brain Research 84:505-516.
Miller, E.K., Gochin, P.M., and Gross, C.G. (1991) A habituation-like decrease in the responses of neurons in inferior temporal cortex of the macaque. Visual Neuroscience 7:357-362.