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Gregory A. Miller

Professor Emeritus

Primary Affiliation

Mechanisms of Cognitive Control

Affiliations

Status Affiliate Faculty

Home Department of Psychology

Phone 244-4190

Email gamiller@illinois.edu

Address

  • Biography

    Professor Emeritus is in the UIUC Department of Psychology and Affiliate Faculty in the Beckman Institute Mechanisms of Cognitive Control Working Group, as well as a Distinguished Research Professor in the UCLA Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences. He studies brain mechanisms contributing to mental illness.

    Education

    • B.A., Psychology and Social Relations, Harvard University

    • M.S., in Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison

    • Ph.D., Clinical Psychologist with Minor in Human Psychophysiology, University of Wisconsin-Madison

  • Honors

    • 1994-1995: Society for Psychophysiological Research, President

    • 2000-2004: UIUC Beckman/Carle Functional Brain Mapping Project, Director

    • 2000-2009: Clinical Psychologists Licensing and Disciplinary Board, State of Illinois

    • 2004-2006: Clinical Psychologists Licensing and Disciplinary Board, Chair

    • 2001-2004, 2010-2011: UIUC Biomedical Imaging Center, Interim Director and Director

    • 2009: Doctor honoris causa (Ehrendoktor / honorary doctorate), University of Konstanz, Germany

    • 2009-2012: Senior Fellow, Zukunftskolleg Institute for Advanced Study, University of Konstanz, Germany

    • 2013: Distinguished Contributions to Psychophysiology Award, Society for Psychophysiological Research

    • 2017: Distinguished Alumni Award, University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Psychology

    • 2017-2021: National Institutes of Health National Advisory Mental Health Council

    • 2019: Distinguished Service Award, UCLA Department of Psychology

    • 2022: John Neale Sustained Mentorship Award, Society for Research in Psychopathology

    • 2024: UCLA Faculty Mentoring Honorary Society

  • Research

    Research areas:

    • Schizophrenia, depression, anxiety, and other disorders

    • Regional brain connectivity

    • How regional brain connectivity contributes to risk for, prevention of, and treatment of these disorders using MRI, EEG, MEG, EKG, and eye-tracking

    Research interests:

    • Mental disorders

    • Statistical methods of data analysis

    • Applications in clinical research

    Miller’s research pursues mechanisms relating cognitive, emotional, and physiological aspects of normal and abnormal human behavior, using the methods of cognitive, affective, and clinical psychophysiology / neuroscience. Interests include executive function, emotional dysregulation, and sensory processes as well as development of multimodal neuroimaging methods. The research integrates sMRI, fMRI, and dense-array scalp event-related brain potential (EEG/ERP)  and magnetoencephalography (MEG) measures as well as structured diagnostic interviews. In collaboration with Profs. Wendy Heller, Brad Sutton and Marie Banich, the MRI / ERP studies address questions of regional brain specialization in emotion and its effects on executive function, with a particular interest in differentiation of depression and anxiety. A collaboration with Profs. Brigitte Rockstroh and Dr. Tzvetan Popov at the U. of Konstanz (Germany) pursues MEG and EEG studies of compromised sensory, emotional, and cognitive processing in schizophrenia and nonspecific effects of stress and the development of a cognitive treatment method. Publications include philosophy-of-science issues  that arise in psychological and biological research on cognition, emotion, and psychopathology as well as tutorials on method issues in psychophysiology / cognitive neuroscience.

  • 2013

    • Chen, Y.-H., Edgar, J.C., Huang, M., Hunter, M.A., Epstein, E., Howell, B., Lu, B.Y., Bustillo, J., Miller, G.A., & Cañive, J.M. (2013). Frontal and superior temporal auditory processing abnormalities in schizophrenia. NeuroImage: Clinical, 2, 695-702.
    • Crocker, L. D., Heller, W., Warren, S.L., O'Hare, A.J., Infantolino, Z.P., & Miller, G.A. (2013). Relationships among cognition, emotion, and motivation: Implications for intervention and neuroplasticity in psychopathology. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7, article 261, 1-19.
    • Fisher, J.E., Miller, G.A., & Heller, W. (2013). Neuropsychological differentiation of adaptive creativity and schizotypal cognition. Personality and Individual Differences, 54, 70-75.
    • Miller, G.A., & Rockstroh, B. (2013). Endophenotypes in psychopathology research: Where do we stand? Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 9, 177-213.
    • Popov, T., Miller, G.A., Rockstroh, B., & Weisz, N. (2013). Modulation of alpha power and functional connectivity during facial affect recognition. Journal of Neuroscience, 33, 6018-6026.
    • Spielberg, J.M., Heller, W., & Miller, G.A.. (2013) Hierarchical brain networks active in approach and avoidance goal pursuit. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7, article 284, 1-15.
    • Warren, S.L., Crocker, L.D., Spielberg, J.M., Engels, A.S., Banich, M.T., Sutton, B.P., Miller, G.A., & Heller, W. (2013). Cortical organization of inhibition-related functions and modulation by psychopathology. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7, article 271, 1-13.

    2012

    • Crocker, L.D., Heller, W., Spielberg, J.M., Warren, S.L., Bredemeier, K., Sutton, B.P., Banich, M.T., & Miller, G.A. (2012). Neural mechanisms of attentional control differentiate trait and state negative affect. Frontiers in Psychology, 3, article 289, 1-13.
    • Edgar, J.C., Hunter, M.A., Huang, M., Smith, A.K., Chen, Y., Sadek, J., Miller, G.A., & Cañive, J.M. (2012). Temporal and frontal cortical thickness associations with M100 auditory activity and attention in healthy controls and individuals with schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research, 140, 250-257.
    • Pietrek, C., Popov, T., Steffen, A., Miller, G.A., & Rockstroh, B. (2012). Neuromagnetic indication of dysfunctional emotion regulation in affective disorders. Depression Research and Treatment, Volume 2012, Article ID 156529, 11 pages.
    • Popov, T., Rockstroh, B., Weisz, N., Elbert, T., & Miller, G.A. (2012). Adjusting brain dynamics in schizophrenia by means of perceptual and cognitive training. PLoS ONE 7(7), e39051.
    • Popov, T., Steffen, A., Weisz, N., Miller, G.A., & Rockstroh, B. (2012). Cross-frequency dynamics of neuromagnetic oscillatory activity: Two mechanisms of emotion regulation. Psychophysiology, 49, 1545-1557.
    • Spielberg, J. M.; Miller, G. A.; Warren, S. L.; Engels, A. S.; Crocker, L. D.; Sutton, B. P.; Heller, W., Trait Motivation Moderates Neural Activation Associated with Goal Pursuit. Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience 2012, 12, (2), 308-322.
    • Spielberg, J.M., Miller, G.A., Warren, S.L., Engels, A.S., Crocker, L.D., Banich, M.T., Sutton, B.P., & Heller, W. (2012). A brain network instantiating approach and avoidance motivation. Psychophysiology, 49, 1200-1214.

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    • Edgar, J.C., & Miller, G.A. (In press). Digital signal processing. O'Reilly Media Inc., Sebastopol, CA.
    • Miller, G.A., & Infantolino, Z.P. (In press). Neuroscience and psychophysiological methods. In E. Diener & R. Biswas-Diener (Eds), Noba textbook series: Psychology. Champaign, IL: DEF Publishers. DOI: www.nobaproject.com.
    • Miller, G.A., Crocker, L.D., Spielberg, J.M., Infantolino, Z.P, & Heller, W. (In press). Issues in localization of brain function: The case of lateralized frontal cortex in cognition, emotion, and psychopathology. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience.
    • Popov, T.G., Rockstroh, B.S., Popova, P., Carolus, A., & Miller, G.A. (In press). Dynamics of alpha oscillations elucidate facial affect recognition in schizophrenia. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience.
    • Spielberg, J.M., De Leon, A.A., Bredemeier, K., Heller, W., Engels, A.S., Warren, S.L., Crocker, L.D., Sutton, B.P., & Miller, G.A. (In press). Anxiety type modulates immediate vs. delayed engagement of brain regions subserving attention. Brain and Behavior.
    • Sussman, T.J., Heller, W., Miller, G.A., & Mohanty, A. (In press). Emotional distractors can enhance attention. Psychological Science.
    • Verona, E., & Miller, G.A. (In press). Analysis of covariance and related strategies. R. Cautin & S. Lilienfeld (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Clinical Psychology.