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Miller, Gregory A.
Professor, Psychology, Beckman Institute
B.A., Harvard University
M.S., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin
Research Areas
Clinical psychophysiology.
I investigate mechanisms relating cognitive, emotional, and physiological aspects of normal and abnormal human behavior, including cognitive workload and working memory deficits in psychopathology and emotion-specific regional cortical activity. Multi-channel scalp event-related brain potentials (ERPs) obtained from EEG are the primary measure, but magnetoencephalographic, fMRI, and autonomic measures are also used. Wendy Heller and I employ scalp EEG recordings to study regional brain specialization in emotion, particularly in differentiation of depression, anxiety, and subtypes of each diagnosis. With Marie Banich and Heller, I am developing parallel EEG and fMRI protocols to study attentional and affective processing in nonpatients. With Arthur Kramer, I employ scalp ERPs in studies of object recognition and the allocation of visual spatial attention. In collaboration with a group at the Albuquerque VA Medical Center, I conduct MEG and EEG studies of compromised cognition and pharmacological interventions in schizophrenia.
Representative Publications
Ho, M. H. R.; Ombao, H.; Edgar, J. C.; Canive, J. M.; Miller, G. A., Time-frequency discriminant analysis of MEG signals. Neuroimage 2008, 40, (1), 174-186.
Astolfi, L.; Fallani, F. D.; Cincotti, F.; Mattia, D.; Marciani, M. G.; Bufalari, S.; Salinari, S.; Colosimo, A.; Ding, L.; Edgar, J. C.; Heller, W.; Miller, G. A.; He, B.; Babiloni, F., Imaging functional brain connectivity patterns from high-resolution EEG and fMRI via graph theory. Psychophysiology 2007, 44, (6), 880-893.
Astolfi, L.; Cincotti, F.; Mattia, D.; Marciani, M. G.; Baccala, L. A.; Fallani, F. D.; Salinari, S.; Ursino, M.; Zavaglia, M.; Ding, L.; Edgar, J. C.; Miller, G. A.; He, B.; Babiloni, F., Comparison of different cortical connectivity estimators for high-resolution EEG recordings. Human Brain Mapping 2007, 28, (2), 143-157.
Fisher, J. E.; Heller, W.; Miller, G. A., Semantic associations, lateralized frontal function, and context maintenance in schizotypy. Neuropsychologia 2007, 45, (4), 663-672.
Gunsalus, C. K.; Bruner, E. M.; Burbules, N. C.; Dash, L.; Finkin, M.; Goldberg, J. P.; Greenough, W. T.; Miller, G. A.; Pratt, M. G.; Iriye, M.; Aronson, D., The Illinois White Paper - Improving the system for protecting human subjects: Counteracting IRB "mission creep". Qualitative Inquiry 2007, 13, (5), 617-649.
Lu, B. Y.; Martin, K. E.; Edgar, J. C.; Smith, A. K.; Lewis, S. F.; Escamilla, M. A.; Miller, G. A.; Canive, J. M., Effect of catechol O-methyltransferase Val(158) met polymorphism on the P50 gating endophenotype in schizophrenia. Biological Psychiatry 2007, 62, (7), 822-825.
Lu, B. Y.; Edgar, J. C.; Jones, A. P.; Smith, A. K.; Huang, M. X.; Miller, G. A.; Canive, J. M., Improved test-retest reliability of 50-ms paired-click auditory gating using magneto encephalography source modeling. Psychophysiology 2007, 44, (1), 86-90.
Miller, G. A.; Elbert, T.; Sutton, B. P.; Heller, W., Innovative clinical assessment technologies: Challenges and opportunities in neuroimaging. Psychological Assessment 2007, 19, (1), 58-73.
Miller, G.A., Asking too much of IRBs. Clinical Science, Winter 2007, 6-9.
Mohanty, A.; Engels, A. S.; Herrington, J. D.; Heller, W.; Ho, M. H. R.; Banich, M. T.; Webb, A. G.; Warren, S. L.; Miller, G. A., Differential engagement of anterior cingulate cortex subdivisions for cognitive and emotional function. Psychophysiology 2007, 44, (3), 343-351.
Sass, S. M.; Heller, W.; Stewart, J. L.; Levin, R. L.; Edgar, C. J.; Fisher, J. E.; Miller, G. A., Time course of attentional bias in anxiety. Psychophysiology 2007, 44, S51-S51.
Thoma, R. J.; Hanlon, F. M.; Huangde, M.; Miller, G. A.; Moses, S. N.; Weisend, M. P.; Jones, A.; Paulson, K. M.; Irwin, J.; Canive, J. M., Impaired secondary somatosensory gating in patients with schizophrenia. Psychiatry Research 2007, 151, (3), 189-199.
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