# Earl K. Miller **Domain:** Neuroscience / Cognitive Control / Working Memory **Doc Type:** Researcher Node **Institution:** [[Picower Institute for Learning and Memory]], [[MIT]] **Related:** [[Analog Computation]], [[Traveling Waves]], [[Mixed Selectivity]] --- ## Biography **Earl K. Miller** is Picower Professor of Neuroscience and a professor in MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. His laboratory studies the neural mechanisms of attention, learning, memory, cognitive control, and prefrontal-cortex function. Miller joined MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and the Picower Institute in 1995 after doctoral work at Princeton University and postdoctoral training at the National Institute of Mental Health. ## Corpus Context Miller is the senior author of the 2026 review **Analog Cognition and Consciousness**, examined in [[articles/Analog Cognition and the Architecture of Continuity|Analog Cognition and the Architecture of Continuity]]. The review consolidates a theory in which traveling brain waves provide fast, flexible spatial and temporal organization of cortical activity and may perform analog computation through interference. ## Sources / Provenance - [Earl K. Miller — Picower Institute profile](https://picower.mit.edu/earl-k-miller) - Earl K. Miller, Scott L. Brincat, and Jefferson E. Roy, [Analog Cognition and Consciousness](https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0711-26.2026), _The Journal of Neuroscience_ (2026)