Jacob Miller
@neurojacob.bsky.social
Asst. Prof in Psychology at the University of Miami, studying working memory, learning, and the prefrontal cortex | usually on a bicycle when not thinking about the brain 🚵 | https://www.jam-lab.org
Presenting on contingency representations in PFC during WM on Saturday at SfN! Featuring fMRI and multi-area RNN modeling from my time with John Murray 🤓
And, recruiting a PhD student for Fall ‘26 in my new lab at U-Miami! Check us out here, and feel free to reach out: jam-lab.org (apps due 12/1)
And, recruiting a PhD student for Fall ‘26 in my new lab at U-Miami! Check us out here, and feel free to reach out: jam-lab.org (apps due 12/1)
November 14, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Presenting on contingency representations in PFC during WM on Saturday at SfN! Featuring fMRI and multi-area RNN modeling from my time with John Murray 🤓
And, recruiting a PhD student for Fall ‘26 in my new lab at U-Miami! Check us out here, and feel free to reach out: jam-lab.org (apps due 12/1)
And, recruiting a PhD student for Fall ‘26 in my new lab at U-Miami! Check us out here, and feel free to reach out: jam-lab.org (apps due 12/1)
Our amazing department (Psychology) at U-Miami is hiring in their Adult division, with open topic / focus area! Come apply and check out the job ad here: umiami.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UMFaculty/jo...:
November 4, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Our amazing department (Psychology) at U-Miami is hiring in their Adult division, with open topic / focus area! Come apply and check out the job ad here: umiami.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UMFaculty/jo...:
Today’s grad cog neuro course is being taught by your very own Hippo (on) campus!
And yes, he feels strongly about his position atop the Felleman / Van Essen wiring diagram
And yes, he feels strongly about his position atop the Felleman / Van Essen wiring diagram
October 30, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Today’s grad cog neuro course is being taught by your very own Hippo (on) campus!
And yes, he feels strongly about his position atop the Felleman / Van Essen wiring diagram
And yes, he feels strongly about his position atop the Felleman / Van Essen wiring diagram
U-Miami has a postdoctoral mentored research training program in Alzheimer's / neurodegeneration, with 2 years of funding for fellows. If you're interested in my lab and applying cognitive neuroscience and precision neuroimaging methods to studying AD, please reach out! mbi-umiami.org/training/
October 17, 2025 at 7:03 PM
U-Miami has a postdoctoral mentored research training program in Alzheimer's / neurodegeneration, with 2 years of funding for fellows. If you're interested in my lab and applying cognitive neuroscience and precision neuroimaging methods to studying AD, please reach out! mbi-umiami.org/training/
Skimming this excellent autobiography of Charles Gross ahead of going over object recognition systems in cog neuro course on Tuesday (www.sfn.org/-/media/SfN/...), and there are some *gems* in here.... "Both spoke only the hermetic jargon each had created so no communication was possible."
September 22, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Skimming this excellent autobiography of Charles Gross ahead of going over object recognition systems in cog neuro course on Tuesday (www.sfn.org/-/media/SfN/...), and there are some *gems* in here.... "Both spoke only the hermetic jargon each had created so no communication was possible."
This is a large premise of the Barbas structural model! :) that cortical laminar types are very related to feedforward/feedback connectional patterns pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
September 5, 2025 at 5:53 PM
This is a large premise of the Barbas structural model! :) that cortical laminar types are very related to feedforward/feedback connectional patterns pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
there are many! (from recent OHBM anatomy session slides on PFC)
July 17, 2025 at 6:56 PM
there are many! (from recent OHBM anatomy session slides on PFC)
This makes sense to me for the myelin-related or func. conn. gradient maps, but for fMRI GLMs/models in cog neuro? For the latter, testing diff. models to see what voxels fit well (and which don’t) across task and stimulus conditions seems important and leads to cool findings of RPEs, semantic maps
June 30, 2025 at 4:44 PM
This makes sense to me for the myelin-related or func. conn. gradient maps, but for fMRI GLMs/models in cog neuro? For the latter, testing diff. models to see what voxels fit well (and which don’t) across task and stimulus conditions seems important and leads to cool findings of RPEs, semantic maps
At #OHBM2025 in Brisbane? I'm presenting at ~9am tomorrow on structural-functional architectures in the PFC as part of the neuroanatomy educational session! (Which honors the late Karl Zilles)
Full session details: ww6.aievolution.com/hbm2501/Events/viewEv?ev=2229 @ohbmofficial.bsky.social
Full session details: ww6.aievolution.com/hbm2501/Events/viewEv?ev=2229 @ohbmofficial.bsky.social
June 22, 2025 at 9:25 PM
At #OHBM2025 in Brisbane? I'm presenting at ~9am tomorrow on structural-functional architectures in the PFC as part of the neuroanatomy educational session! (Which honors the late Karl Zilles)
Full session details: ww6.aievolution.com/hbm2501/Events/viewEv?ev=2229 @ohbmofficial.bsky.social
Full session details: ww6.aievolution.com/hbm2501/Events/viewEv?ev=2229 @ohbmofficial.bsky.social
From the legendary Marian Diamond.. ahead of her time there too?
May 26, 2025 at 4:54 PM
From the legendary Marian Diamond.. ahead of her time there too?
"dlPFC" is such a loaded term... I'd love if more exact recording electrode images were shared so they could be measured relative to anatomical landmarks!
this definitely looks more like FEF/8a/ish... but all depends which old anatomist's drawings you like :)
this definitely looks more like FEF/8a/ish... but all depends which old anatomist's drawings you like :)
May 3, 2025 at 2:55 AM
"dlPFC" is such a loaded term... I'd love if more exact recording electrode images were shared so they could be measured relative to anatomical landmarks!
this definitely looks more like FEF/8a/ish... but all depends which old anatomist's drawings you like :)
this definitely looks more like FEF/8a/ish... but all depends which old anatomist's drawings you like :)
Now out at @elife.bsky.social, a short Insight article I wrote highlighting this cool paper from Qing Yu's lab! They show how working memory representations in human frontal cortex are flexible based on task goals and rules. (elifesciences.org/articles/100..., elifesciences.org/articles/106...)
April 27, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Now out at @elife.bsky.social, a short Insight article I wrote highlighting this cool paper from Qing Yu's lab! They show how working memory representations in human frontal cortex are flexible based on task goals and rules. (elifesciences.org/articles/100..., elifesciences.org/articles/106...)
@umiamipsych.bsky.social celebrating the centennial of the University of Miami! (And I finally met Sebastian the Ibis, who is unfortunately overqualified to work in the lab, but may be willing to write me a letter of support)
April 9, 2025 at 2:54 PM
@umiamipsych.bsky.social celebrating the centennial of the University of Miami! (And I finally met Sebastian the Ibis, who is unfortunately overqualified to work in the lab, but may be willing to write me a letter of support)
I’m planning to hire an RA for my new lab at the University of Miami (www.jam-lab.org) to start August 1st! Please feel free to get in touch or share with anyone who may be interested! umiami.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UMCareerStaff/job/Coral-Gables-FL/Research-Associate---Psychology_R100085344-1
March 17, 2025 at 1:11 PM
I’m planning to hire an RA for my new lab at the University of Miami (www.jam-lab.org) to start August 1st! Please feel free to get in touch or share with anyone who may be interested! umiami.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UMCareerStaff/job/Coral-Gables-FL/Research-Associate---Psychology_R100085344-1
NEK / East Burke, VT area is a dream… 🙏🏼 I have fun (and painful) memories of biking the trails there in the foliage time
November 30, 2024 at 7:03 PM
NEK / East Burke, VT area is a dream… 🙏🏼 I have fun (and painful) memories of biking the trails there in the foliage time
And the epicenter is… 👀
November 12, 2024 at 1:52 AM
And the epicenter is… 👀
Check out our work on the circuitry of WM-action interplay, led by the ever-inspiring Anastasia Kiyonaga! Two distinct TMS protocols to lPFC differentially interfered with proactive vs. reactive control mechanisms between WM and action goals, suggesting multiple timescales of adaptive control in PFC
September 19, 2024 at 2:01 AM
Check out our work on the circuitry of WM-action interplay, led by the ever-inspiring Anastasia Kiyonaga! Two distinct TMS protocols to lPFC differentially interfered with proactive vs. reactive control mechanisms between WM and action goals, suggesting multiple timescales of adaptive control in PFC
Excited to announce I'll be joining the University of Miami Psychology Department as an asst. professor in Jan '25!
My lab will study working memory, cognition, and PFC functional architecture using precision neuroimaging. Stay tuned for recruiting news and more!
My lab will study working memory, cognition, and PFC functional architecture using precision neuroimaging. Stay tuned for recruiting news and more!
April 20, 2024 at 9:03 PM
Excited to announce I'll be joining the University of Miami Psychology Department as an asst. professor in Jan '25!
My lab will study working memory, cognition, and PFC functional architecture using precision neuroimaging. Stay tuned for recruiting news and more!
My lab will study working memory, cognition, and PFC functional architecture using precision neuroimaging. Stay tuned for recruiting news and more!
At SfN? Come check out my poster at 1pm tomorrow (Mon.) afternoon from @johndmurray.bsky.social’s lab! (VV6) We dive into anatomical-functional relationships and spatial scales of coding for WM in NHP lPFC, analyzing an amazing calcium imaging dataset from the group of Liping Wang.
November 13, 2023 at 12:13 AM
At SfN? Come check out my poster at 1pm tomorrow (Mon.) afternoon from @johndmurray.bsky.social’s lab! (VV6) We dive into anatomical-functional relationships and spatial scales of coding for WM in NHP lPFC, analyzing an amazing calcium imaging dataset from the group of Liping Wang.