Publications.

Research is life.

I am excited to be working at the frontier of cognitive science, asking questions like: what is a mind, what is consciousness, what is happiness, and how might we go about building a world that supports our flourishing?

 

Articles

  1. White, B. & Miller, M. (forthcoming) Free-Energy Minimising Agents and Beneficial A.I.: Ambient Smart Environments, Allostasis, and Metacognitive Control. Synthese.

  2. Manu, S. & Miller, M. (forthcoming) Increasing Death Competency to Reduce Pathology: A Predictive Processing Account of the Benefits of Approaching Death-Stimuli. The Undergraduate Research Journal of Psychology at UCLA.

  3. White, B., Clark, A., & Miller, M. (2024). Digital Being: social media and the predictive mind. Neuroscience of Consciousness, 2024(1), niae008.

  4. Albarracin, M., Bouchard-Joly, G., Sheikhbahaee, Z., Miller, M., Pitliya, R. J., & Poirier, P. (2024). Feeling Our Place in the World: an Active Inference Account of Self-Esteem. Neuroscience of Consciousness, 2024(1), niae007.

  5. Miller, M., White, B., & Scrivner, C. (2024). Surfing uncertainty with screams: predictive processing, error dynamics and horror films. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 379(1895), 20220425.

  6. Kiverstein, J., & Miller, M. (2023). Playfulness and the Meaningful Life: an Active Inference Perspective. Neuroscience of Consciousness, 2023(1), niad024.

  7. Schoeller, F., Horowitz, A. H., Jain, A., Maes, P., Reggente, N., Christov-Moore, Miller, M., ... & Friston, K. (2023). Interoceptive Technologies for Psychiatric Interventions: from Diagnosis to Clinical Applications. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 105478.

  8. Miller, M., Albarracin, M., Pitliya, R. J., Kiefer, A., Mago, J., Gorman, C., ... & Ramstead, M. J. (2022). Resilience and active inference. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 1059117-1059117.

  9. Anderson, B, Miller, M., & Verveke, J. (2022) Predictive Processing and Relevance Realization: Exploring Convergent Solutions to the Frame Problem. Phenom Cogn Sci.

  10. Deterding, S., Andersen, M. M., Kiverstein, J., & Miller, M. (2022). Mastering uncertainty: A predictive processing account of enjoying uncertain success in video game play. Frontiers in Psychology, 4214.

  11. Andersen, M. M., Kiverstein, J., Miller, M., & Roepstorff, A. (2022). Play in Predictive Minds: A Cognitive Theory of Play. Psychological Review. Advance online publication.

  12. Nave, K., Deane, G., Miller, M., & Clark, A. (2022). Expecting Some Action: Predictive Processing and the Construction of Conscious Experience. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 1-19.

  13. White, B., & Miller, M. (2021, September). Filtered States: Active Inference, Social Media and Mental Health. In Joint European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases (pp. 772-783). Springer, Cham.

  14. Miller, M., Kiverstein J. and Rietveld, E. (2022) The Predictive Dynamics of Happiness and Wellbeing. Emotion Review.

  15. Schoeller, F., Miller, M., Salomon, R., & Friston, K. J. (2021). Trust as Extended Control: Human-Machine Interactions as Active Inference. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 93.

  16. Miller, M. & White, B. (2021) The Warped Self: Social Media Makes Us Feel Terrible About Who We Really Are. Neuroscience Explains Why – And Empowers Us To Fight Back. In AEON.

  17. Miller, M., Nave, K., Deane, G. & Clark, A. (2020) The Value of Uncertainty. In AEON, https://aeon.co/essays/use-uncertainty-to-leverage-the-power-of-your-predictive-brain?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss-feed.

  18. Miller, M., Deane, G. & Wilkinson, S. (2020) Losing Ourselves: Active Inference, Depersonalization and Meditation. Frontiers of Psychology,

  19. Miller, M., Nave, K., Deane, G. & Clark, A. (2020). Wilding the Predictive Brain: Embodied, Emotional and Extended. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science.

  20. Kiverstein, J., Miller M. & Rietveld E. (2020). Mood as Tuning Predictions: A Neurophenomenological Perspective on Depression. Neuroscience of Consciousness.

  21. Miller, M., Kiverstein, J., & Rietveld, E. (2020). Embodying addiction: A predictive processing account. Brain and Cognition, 138, 105495.

  22. Miller, M., & Nave, K. (2020). Slimes and Cyborgs: Stretching the Boundaries of Life. Adaptive Behavior, 28(1), 43-44.

  23. Kiverstein, J., Miller, M. & Rietveld, E. (2017). The Feeling of Grip: Error Dynamics, Novelty and the Predictive Brain. Synthese, 1-23.

  24. Miller, M., & Clark, A. (2017). Happily Entangled: Prediction, Emotion, and the Embodied Mind. Synthese, 1-17.

  25. Kiverstein, J., & Miller, M. (2015). The Embodied Brain: Towards a Radical Embodied Cognitive Neuroscience. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 9, 237.

  26. Kiverstein, J., & Miller, M. (2015). The Cognitive-Emotional Brain is an Embodied and Social Brain. Commentary on Luiz Pessoa. Behavioural and Brain Sciences 38: 26-7.

Book Chapters / Reviews

  1. Miller, M., Anderson, M., Schoeller, F. & Kiverstein, J. (2023) Getting a Kick Out of Film: Aesthetic Pleasure and Play in Prediction Error Minimizing Agents. In Worldling the Brain.

  2. Ramstead, M., Wiese, W., Miller, M. & Friston, K. (2023) Deep neurophenomenology: An Active Inference Account of Some Features of Conscious Experience and of their Disturbance in Major Depressive Disorder. In Expected Experiences: The Predictive Mind in an Uncertain World. Routledge, Tony Cheng, Ryoji Sato, and Jakob Hohwy (Eds.).

  3. Miller, M. & Markovic, J. (2023). Predicting Emotions: Emotion-Cognition Interactions in the Predictive Brain. In Mendonça, D., Curado, M., & Gouveia, S. S. (Eds.) The philosophy and science of predictive processing. Bloomsbury Publishing.

  4. Miller, M. (2013). Book Review: of Self, No Self? Perspectives from Analytical, Phenomenological, and Indian Traditions, edited by Mark Siderits, Evan Thompson and Dan Zahavi, Oxford University Press 2011. Journal of Consciousness Studies.

Edited Collections

  1. The Computational Approach to Neuro-Phenomenology (forthcoming). (Eds) Mago, J., Lutz, A.,Lifshitz, M. & Miller, M. Neuroscience of Consciousness.

  2. Expecting Wellbeing (2024). (Eds) Miller, M., Kiverstein, J. & Hipolito, I. Neuroscience of Consciousness.

  3. Phenomenal Expectations: New Essays on Predictive Processing and Consciousness (2022). (Eds) Miller, M., Schlicht, T. & Clark, A. Review for Philosophy and Psychology.

Under Review / In Preparation

  1. Miller, M, Kiverstein J. and Reitveld, R. (in review, Review of Philosophy and Psychology) Desire and Motivation in Predictive Processing: An Ecological and Enactive Perspective.

  2. Schoeller, F., Ashur, P. Larralde, J., Couedic, C., Ciaunica, A., Linson, A. & Miller, M. (in review, Frontiers of Neuroscience) Auditory Feedback on Proprioception Increases Bodily Awareness.

  3. Brahinsky, J. Mago, J. Miller, M., Catherine, S. & Lifshitz, M. (in review, American Journal of Human Biology) The Spiral of Attention, Arousal, and Release (AAR): A Phenomenology of Jhāna Meditation and Speaking in Tongues.

  4. Miller, M., Patchitt, J. Critchley, H., Garfinkle, S. & lLark, A.(in preparation) The Impact of Vibro-Tactile False Physiological Feedback on Emotional Intensity Judgments: A Behavioral and fMRI Study.

  5. Kiverstein, J. & Miller, M. (in preparation, Philosophical Psychology – Special Issue Psychedelic Treatments in Psychiatry, Ed. by Elly Vintiadis) The therapeutic benefits of ego-transcendent experiences in psychedelic assisted therapy

  6. White B., Demases, D. & Miller, M. (in preparation, Frontiers of Psychology) Third-wave artificial empathy: an active inference approach to affective computing. Special Issue Bio A.I. - From Embodied Cognition to Enactive Robotics.

  7. Brahinsky, J., Baquedano, C., Mago, J., Miller, M., Lifshitz, M., Fisher, N., Michael, F. (in preparation, Philosophical Psychology) Expanding the Dimensions of Ego Dissolution and Non-Dual Experience: Lessons From Contemplative Christianity.

  8. Miller, M., Mago, J., Laukkonen, R., Deane, G. & Kiverstein, J. (in preparation, Philosophical Psychology) The Computational Dynamics of Self-Transcendence: An Active Inference Approach.

  9. Becattini, V. & Miller, M. (in preparation for Neuroscience of Consciousness) Learning to Attenuate Myself: A Predictive Processing Account of the Body-Scan Meditation.

  10. Ciria, A., Albarracin, M., Miller, M., & Lara, B. (in preparation). Social Media Platforms: Trading with Prediction Error Minimization for Your Attention.