Tirin Moore

Honors and Awards

• Troland Research Award, National Academy of Sciences (2009)
• McKnight Scholar Award, McKnight Endowment Fund (2006-2009)
• CAREER Award, National Science Foundation (2006-2011)
• Sloan Fellow, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (2004-2006)
• Pew Scholar, Pew Charitable Trust (2004-2008)

Professional Education

Postdoctoral Advisees

Katherine Armstrong, Behrad Noudoost

Graduate & Fellowship Program Affiliations

• Neurobiology
• Neurosciences

Web Site Links

• Tirin Moore Links

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

• Dynamic sensitivity of area V4 neurons during saccade preparation. Han X, Xian SX, Moore T. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2009; 106 (31): 13046-51
• Attention governs action in the primate frontal eye field. Schafer RJ, Moore T. Neuron. 2007; 56 (3): 541-51
• Changes in visual receptive fields with microstimulation of frontal cortex. Armstrong KM, Fitzgerald JK, Moore T. Neuron. 2006; 50 (5): 791-8
• Representations of faces and body parts in macaque temporal cortex: a functional MRI study. Pinsk MA, DeSimone K, Moore T, Gross CG, Kastner S. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005; 102 (19): 6996-7001
• Selective gating of visual signals by microstimulation of frontal cortex. Moore T, Armstrong KM. Nature. 2003; 421 (6921): 370-3