Tirin Moore

Honors and Awards

• Early Career Scientist, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (2009-2015)
• Troland Award, National Academy of Sciences (2009)
• McKnight Scholar Award, McKnight Endowment Fund (2006-2009)
• CAREER Award, National Science Foundation (2006-2011)
• Pew Scholar, Pew Charitable Trust (2004-2008)

Professional Education

Graduate & Fellowship Program Affiliations

• Neurobiology
• Neurology and Neurol Sciences
• Neurosciences
• Bioengineering

Internet Links

• Tirin Moore Links

Current Research Interests

We study neural mechanisms of visual-motor integration and the neural basis of cognition (e.g. attention). We study the activity of single neurons in visual and motor structures within the brain, examine how perturbing that activity affects neurons in other brain structures, and also how it affects the perceptual and motor performance of behaving animals. Questions currently addressed by our group include:

(1) How are the signals conveyed by visual cortical neurons used to guide eye movements?

(2) How does oculomotor feedback affect processing in visual cortex?

(3) What is the impact of planned movements on visual perception?

(4) What are the neural circuits and neural computations that control selective attention?

Our laboratory is also driven to develop more powerful approaches to systems-level neurobiological questions.

Publications

• Dissociation of Response Variability from Firing Rate Effects in Frontal Eye Field Neurons during Visual Stimulation, Working Memory, and Attention. Chang MH, Armstrong KM, Moore T. J Neurosci. 2012; 32 (6): 2204-16
• Control of visual cortical signals by prefrontal dopamine. Noudoost B, Moore T. Nature. 2011; 474 (7351): 372-5
• Selective attention from voluntary control of neurons in prefrontal cortex. Schafer RJ, Moore T. Science. 2011; 332 (6037): 1568-71
• The role of neuromodulators in selective attention. Noudoost B, Moore T. Trends Cogn Sci. 2011; 15 (12): 585-91
• Top-down control of visual attention. Noudoost B, Chang MH, Steinmetz NA, Moore T. Curr Opin Neurobiol. 2010; 20 (2): 183-90