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69
Citations
28072
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1991 - APA Award for Lifetime Contributions to Psychology, American Psychological Association.
  • 1989 - William James Fellow Award, Association for Psychological Science (APA)
  • 1983 - APA Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Applied Research
  • 1983 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
  • 1964 - US President's National Medal of Science "For [his] sustained and imaginative research on principles of learning and motivation and illuminating behavioral analysis of the effects of direct electrical stimulation of the brain.", Presented by President Johnson at a White House Ceremony in the East Room on February 8, 1965.
  • 1959 - APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology, American Psychological Association
  • 1958 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1951 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Neal E. Miller was affiliated with Rockefeller University in the United States. Their academic contributions spanned several topics primarily under the broad field of Medicine. The main areas of research included Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications, Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging, Medical Image Segmentation Techniques, Cardiac Tumors and Thrombi, Aortic Thrombus and Embolism, and Atrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes.

Their publications appeared in specialized venues such as Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience and the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Two notable papers included "Measuring Efficiency of Semi-automated Brain Tumor Segmentation by Simulating User Interaction" published in 2020, and "INCIDENTALLY DISCOVERED LEFT ATRIAL THROMBUS WITH SUBSEQUENT EMBOLIC OCCLUSION OF THE ABDOMINAL AORTA" published in 2023.

Frequent coauthors who collaborated with Neal E. Miller included David T. Gering, Aikaterini Kotrotsou, Brett Young-Moxon, Aaron Avery, and Lisa Kohli.

The main fields of study encompassed:

  • Medicine

Subfields of study included:

  • Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging
  • Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine

Research topics covered:

  • Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications
  • Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging
  • Medical Image Segmentation Techniques
  • Cardiac tumors and thrombi
  • Aortic Thrombus and Embolism
  • Atrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes

Recognition for contributions to science and psychology was reflected in several awards. These included the APA Award for Lifetime Contributions to Psychology from the American Psychological Association in 1991, the William James Fellow Award from the Association for Psychological Science (APA) in 1989, and membership in the National Academy of Medicine in 1983.

Additional honors comprised the APA Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Applied Research in 1983, the US President's National Medal of Science awarded in 1964 "for sustained and imaginative research on principles of learning and motivation and illuminating behavioral analysis of the effects of direct electrical stimulation of the brain," as presented by President Johnson at a White House ceremony in 1965.

Earlier recognitions included the APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology in 1959, membership in the National Academy of Sciences in 1958, and fellowship in the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1951.

Best Publications

  • Frustration and aggression

    John Dollard;Neal E. Miller;Leonard W. Doob;O. H. Mowrer

  • Technique to improve chronic motor deficit after stroke

    E Taub;N E Miller;T A Novack;E W Cook rd

  • Social learning and imitation

    Neal E. Miller;John Dollard

  • Personality and Psychotherapy

    Rudolph E. Morris;John Dollard;Neal E. Miller

  • Learning of Visceral and Glandular Responses

    Neal E. Miller

  • Studies of fear as an acquirable drive: I. Fear as motivation and fear-reduction as reinforcement in the learning of new responses

    Neal E. Miller

  • Personality and Psychotherapy: An Analysis in Terms of Learning, Thinking, and Culture

    John Dollard;Neal E. Miller

  • An operant approach to rehabilitation medicine: overcoming learned nonuse by shaping.

    Edward Taub;Jean E. Crago;Louis D. Burgio;Thomas E. Groomes

  • Theory and experiment relating psychoanalytic displacement to stimulus-response generalization.

    Neal E. Miller

  • Learning motivated by electrical stimulation of the brain.

    Jose M. R. Delgado;Warren W. Roberts;Neal E. Miller

  • Effects of chronic exposure to stressors on avoidance-escape behavior and on brain norepinephrine.

    Jay M. Weiss;Howard I. Glazer;Larissa A. Pohorecky;John Brick

  • Biofeedback and Visceral Learning

    Neal E. Miller

  • Experiments on Motivation: Studies Combining Psychological, Physiological, and Pharmacological Techniques

    Neal E. Miller

  • CHEMICAL CODING OF BEHAVIOR IN THE BRAIN.

    Neal E. Miller

  • Secondary reinforcement in rats as a function of information value and reliability of the stimulus.

    M. David Egger;Neal E. Miller

  • Instrumental learning of heart rate changes in curarized rats: shaping, and specificity to discriminative stimulus.

    Neal E. Miller;Leo Dicara

  • Learning resistance to pain and fear: effects of overlearning, exposure, and rewarded expsure in context.

    Neal E. Miller

  • Effects of drugs on motivation; the value of using a variety of measures.

    Neal E. Miller

  • Rewarding and punishing effects from stimulating the same place in the rat's brain.

    Gordon H. Bower;Neal E. Miller

  • Personality and Psychotherapy. An Analysis in Terms of Learning, Thinking and Culture. New York (McGraw-Hill) 1950.

    John Dollard;N. E. Miller

  • Conflict versus consolidation of memory traces to explain "retrograde amnesia" produced by ECS.

    Edgar E. Coons;Neal E. Miller

  • Some recent studies of conflict behavior and drugs.

    Neal E. Miller

  • Evidence for Higher Functions of the Cerebellum: Eating and Grooming Elicited by Cerebellar Stimulation in Cats

    Gary G. Berntson;Samuel J. Potolicchio;Neal E. Miller

  • Social Learning and Imitation

    Robert H. Gault;Neal E. Miller;John Dollard

  • Frustration and Aggression.@@@Explorations in Personality; A Clinical and Experimental Study of Fifty Men of College Age.

    Kimball Young;John Dollard;N. E. Miller;L. W. Doob

  • Social Learning and Imitation

    Charles Bird;N. E. Miller;J. Dollard

Frequent Co-Authors

Niels Birbaumer
Niels Birbaumer University of Tübingen
Carl I. Hovland
Carl I. Hovland Yale University
David A. Booth
David A. Booth University of Sussex
Gordon H. Bower
Gordon H. Bower Stanford University
Joseph D. Matarazzo
Joseph D. Matarazzo Oregon Health & Science University
Gary G. Berntson
Gary G. Berntson The Ohio State University
Thomas A. Novack
Thomas A. Novack University of Alabama at Birmingham
Edwin G. Boring
Edwin G. Boring Harvard University
Wilbert J. McKeachie
Wilbert J. McKeachie University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Herta Flor
Herta Flor Heidelberg University

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