Cognitive Neuroscience

BIOGRAPHY

ACADEMIC POSITIONS:
• Picower Professor of Neuroscience, The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory and Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Co-Director, Center of Excellence for Learning in Education, Science, and Technology, National Science Foundation Science of Learning Center
• Director of Graduate Studies in Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Adjunct Professor, Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston University
• Visiting Scholar, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Harvard University

EDUCATION:
1990 PhD in Psychology and Neuroscience, Princeton University
1987 MA in Psychology and Neuroscience, Princeton University
1985 BA with honors in Psychology, Kent State University

AWARDS AND HONORS:
2011 Biomed Distinguished Lecturer, University of Leuven
2010 MERIT Award, National Institute of Mental Health
2009 AJ Carlson Memorial Lecture, University of Chicago
2007 Mathilde Solowey Award in the Neurosciences
2007 Jeffrey Lecture in Cognitive Neuroscience, UCLA
2006 Elected to the International Neuropsychological Symposium
2006 Grass Lecture, University of Illinois
2005 Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
2004 Fred Attneave Memorial Lecture, University of Oregon
2002 Elected to the International Society for Behavioral Neuroscience
2000 Society for Neuroscience Young Investigator Award
2000 National Academy of Sciences Troland Research Award
1999 Class of 1956 Career Development Professorship (endowed chair)
1998 John Merck Scholar Award
1996 Pew Scholar Award
1996 McKnight Scholar Award
1996 Whitehall Foundation Fellowship
1996 Alfred P Sloan Research Fellow
1987 National Research Service Award Predoctoral Fellowship
1986 National Institutes of Health Predoctoral Training Fellowship
1985 Phi Beta Kappa

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
The Miller Lab uses experimental and theoretical approaches to study the neural basis of cognition. We investigate how categories, concepts, and rules are learned, mental flexibility, how attention is focused, and, more generally, how the brain coordinates goal-directed thought and action. Our goal is to construct more detailed, mechanistic accounts of how executive control is implemented in the brain and its dysfunction in diseases such as autism, schizophrenia, and attention deficit disorder.