Faculty Guide

Title

Assistant Professor of Biology

Biology
Neuroscience
Volen National Center for Complex Systems

Expertise

Systems neuroscience
Mathematical modeling
Computer programming
Dynamical systems
Cognition and memory

Profile

My research addresses the question of how neurons in the brain, communicating with each other via electrical spikes, can connect together in ways to produce useful behavior, and how changes in the network of connections can be wrought by external stimuli, or training, leading to changes in behavior.

Courses Taught

BIOL	135b	The Principles of Biological Modeling
MATH	56a	Introduction to Stochastic Processes and Models
NBIO	136b	Computational Neuroscience
NBIO	340a	Systems/Computational Neuroscience Journal Club
NBIO	340b	Systems/Computational Neuroscience Journal Club
NBIO	340d	Systems/Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Scholarship

Miller, Paul and Katz, Donald B. "Accuracy and response-time distributions for decision-making: linear perfect integrators versus nonlinear attractor-based neural circuits." Journal of Computational Neuroscience (2013). (forthcoming)

Bourjaily, Mark and Miller, Paul. "Dynamic afferent synapses to decision-making networks improve performance in tasks requiring stimulus associations or discriminations." Journal of Neurophysiology 108. 2 (2012): 513-527.

Bourjaily, Mark A and Miller, Paul. "Excitatory, inhibitory and structural plasticity produce correlated connectivity in random networks trained to solve paired-stimulus tasks." Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience 5. (2011): 37.

Bourjaily, Mark A and Miller, Paul. "Synaptic plasticity and network connectivity requirements to produce stimulus-pair specific responses in recurrent networks of spiking neurons." Public Library of Science: Computational Biology 7. 2 (2011): e1001091.

Miller, Paul and Katz, Donald B. "Stochastic Transitions between States of Neural Activity." The Dynamic Brain: An Exploration of Neuronal Variability and Its Functional Significance. 1st ed. vol. N/A Ed. Ding, Mingzhou and Glanzman, Dennis L.. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2011. 29-46.

Miller, Paul and Wingfield, Art. "Distinct effects of perceptual quality on auditory word recognition, memory formation and recall in a neural model of sequential memory." Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience 4. (2011): 14.

Piqado, Tepring, Cousins, Katie C., Wingfield, Art and Miller, Paul. "Effects of degraded sensory input on memory for speech: Behavioral data and a test of biologically constrained computational models." Brain Research 1365. (2011): 48-65.

Jun JK, Miller P, Hernández A, Zainos A, Lemus L, Brody CD, Romo R. "Heterogenous population coding of a short-term memory and decision task.." Journal of Neuroscience 30. 3 (2010): 916-929.

Miller P, Katz DB.. "Stochastic transitions between neural states in taste processing and decision-making.." Journal of Neuroscience 30. 7 (2010): 2559-2570.