Miles JT, Weaver KE, Webb Sara Jane, Ojemann JG. Developmental relationships between the human alpha rhythm and intrinsic neural timescales are dependent on neural hierarchy. Journal of Neurophysiology. 2026. (Dataset hosted here. Project Github here)
Miles JT, Mullins GL, Mizumori SJY. Flexible decision-making is related to strategy learning, vicarious trial and error, and medial prefrontal rhythms during spatial set-shifting. Learning & Memory. 2024.
Kidder KS, Gillis RM, Miles JT, Mizumori SJY. The medial prefrontal cortex during flexible decisions: Evidence for its role in distinct working memory processes. Hippocampus. 2023.
Miles JT, Kidder KS, Mizumori SJY. Hippocampal beta rhythms as a bridge between sensory learning and memory-guided decision-making. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. 2023.
Miles JT, Kidder KS, Wang Z, Zhu Y, Gire DH, Mizumori SJY. A Machine Learning Approach for Detecting Vicarious Trial and Error Behaviors. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 2021.
Kidder KS, Miles JT, Baker PM, Hones VI, Gire DH, Mizumori SJY. A selective role for the mPFC during choice and deliberation, but not spatial memory retention over short delays. Hippocampus. 2021.
Tariq MF, Lewis SM, Lowell A, Moore S, Miles JT, Perkel DJ, Gire DH. Using Head-Mounted Ethanol Sensors to Monitor Olfactory Information and Determine Behavioral Changes Associated with Ethanol-Plume Contact during Mouse Odor-Guided Navigation. eNeuro. 2021.
Steinmetz NA, Buetfering C, Lecoq J, Lee CR, Peters AJ, Jacobs EAK, Coen P, Ollerenshaw DR, Valley MT, De Vries SEJ, Garrett M, Zhuang J, Groblewski PA, Manavi S, Miles JT, White C, Lee E, Griffin F, Larkin JD, Roll K, Cross S, Nguyen TV, Larsen R, Pendergraft J, Daigle T, Tasic B, Thompson CL, Waters J, Olsen S, Margolis DJ, Zeng H, Hausser M, Carandini M, Harris KD. Aberrant Cortical Activity in Multiple GCaMP6-Expressing Transgenic Mouse Lines. eNeuro. 2017.
I'm interested in how brain activity and systems-wide communication changes throughout neural development, and how neural systems interact to enable flexible behavior.
My current work as a postdoc at Seattle Children's Research Institute studies the links between structure and function in human neurodevelopment, as well as the neurophysiology underlying affective processing in childhood and adolescence.
During my Ph.D. I studied how the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex support reversals in the decision process (referred to as vicarious trial and error, or VTE), and how these decision reversals relate to learning, deliberation, and uncertainty.
Ph.D., Neuroscience, University of Washington, 2023
B.S., Neurobiology, University of Washington, 2015