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Michael Miller

ICB Cognitive Neuroscience Co-Leader
Professor and Chair
Psychological & Brain Sciences
UC Santa Barbara
Phone:
+1 805-893-6190
Email:
michael.miller@psych.ucsb.edu
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Research Focus Areas

Research Interests

Cognitive neuroscience; individual differences in brain activity relating to human memory and decision-making; neural components of episodic memory and decision criterion.

News

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ICB Supported Publications

No disconnection syndrome after near-complete callosotomy

Bekir, S., Hopf, J. L., Paul, T., Wiemer, V. M., Santander, T., Skinner, H. E., Rada, A., Woermann, F. G., Kalbhenn, T., Giesbrecht, B., Bien, C. G., Sporns, O., Gazzaniga, M. S., Volz, L. J., & Miller, M. B
Communications Psychology,
10.1038/s44271-025-00377-5

Full interhemispheric integration sustained by a fraction of posterior callosal fibers

Santander, T., Bekir, S., Paul, T., Simonson, J. M., Wiemer, V. M., Skinner, H. E., Hopf, J. L., Rada, A., Woermann, F. G., Kalbhenn, T., Giesbrecht, B., Bien, C. G., Sporns, O., Gazzaniga, M. S., Volz, L. J., & Miller, M. B.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), USA,
10.1073/pnas.2520190122

Group gains or shared pains: How social pressure influences criterion shifting

Durdle CAS, Layher E, Chuey J, Mackin M, & Miller MB
Memory,
10.1080/09658211.2025.2548569

Resilience of navigation strategy and efficiency to the impact of acute stress

Alexander P. Boone, Tom Bullock, Mary H. MacLean, Tyler Santander, Jamie Raymer, Alexander Stuber, Liann Jimmons, Gold N. Okafor, Scott T. Grafton, Michael B. Miller, Barry Giesbrecht and Mary Hegarty
Spatial Cognition & Computation,
10.1080/13875868.2024.2321920

Widespread frontoparietal fMRI activity is greatly affected by changes in criterion placement, not discriminability, during recognition memory and visual detection tests

Layher, E., Santander, T., Chakravarthula, P., Marinsek, N., Turner, B. 0., Eckstein, M. P., & Miller, M. B.
Neurolmage,
10.1016/j.neuroimage.2023.120307

Habituation of the stress response multiplex to repeated cold pressor exposure

Bullock T, MacLean MH, Santander T, Boone AP, Babenko V, Dundon NM, Stuber A, Jimmons L, Raymer J, Okafor GN, Miller MB, Giesbrecht B and Grafton ST
Frontiers in Physiology,
10.3389/fphys.2022.752900

StressNet: Detecting Stress in Thermal Videos

Satish Kumar, A. S. M. Iftekhar, Michael Goebel, Tom Bullock, Mary H. MacLean, Michael B. Miller, Tyler Santander, Barry Giesbrecht, Scott T. Grafton, B. S. Manjunath
IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision,
10.48550/arXiv.2011.09540

Who gives a criterion shift? A uniquely individualistic cognitive trait

Layher, E., Dixit, A., and Miller, M. B.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition,
10.1037/xlm0000951

Not all people are cut out for strategic criterion shifting

Michael B. Miller and Justin Kantner.
Current Directions in Psychological Science,
10.1177/0963721419872747

Recording brain activity can function as an implied social presence and alter neural connectivity

Turner, B.O., Kingstone, A., Risko, E.F., Santander, T., Li, J., & Miller, M.B.
Cognitive Neuroscience,
10.1080/17588928.2019.1650015

Reply to: fMRI replicability depends upon sufficient individual-level data

Benjamin O. Turner, Tyler Santander, Erick J.Paul, Aron K. Barbey and Michael B. Miller
Communications Biology,
10.1038/s42003-019-0379-5

Cross-task and cross-manipulation stability in shifting the decision criterion

Amy Frithsen, Justin Kantner, Brian A. Lopez and Michael B. Miller
Memory,
10.1080/09658211.2017.1393090

Failure to Affect Decision Criteria During Recognition Memory With Continuous Theta Burst Stimulation

Evan Layher, Tyler Santander, Lukas J. Volz and Michael B. Miller
Frontiers in Neuroscience,
10.3389/fnins.2018.00705

The Neural Basis of Individual Differences in Directional Sense

Heather Burte, Benjamin O. Turner, Michael B. Miller and Mary Hegarty
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience,
10.3389/fnhum.2018.00410

Small sample sizes reduce the replicability of task-based fMRI studies

Benjamin O. Turner, Erick J. Paul, Michael B. Miller and Aron K. Barbey
Communications Biology,
10.1038/s42003-018-0073-z

Improving resolution of dynamic communities in human brain networks through targeted node removal

Kimberly J. Schlesinger, Benjamin O. Turner, Scott T. Grafton, Michael B. Miller and Jean M. Carlson
PLOS One,
10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006001

Spectral mapping of brain functional connectivity from diffusion imagining

"Cassiano O. Becker, Sérgio Pequito, George J. Pappas, Michael B. Miller, Scott T. Grafton, Danielle S. Bassett and Victor M. Preciado"
Scientific Reports,
10.1038/s41598-017-18769-x

Influence of response bias and internal/external source on lateral posterior parietal successful retrieval activity

King, D.R. and Miller, M.B.
Cortex,
10.1016/j.cortex.2017.04.002

Age-dependent changes in task-based modular organization of the human brain

Schlesinger, K., Turner, B.O., Lopez, B., Miller, M.B. and Carlson, J.M.
NeuroImage,
10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.09.001

Individual differences in dynamic functional brain connectivity across the human lifespan

Davison, E.N., Turner, B.O., Schlesinger, K.J., Miller, M.B., Grafton, S.T., Bassett, D.S. and Carlson, J.M.
PLoS Computational Biology,
10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005178
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