Tirin Moore
Stanford University
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Primary Section: 28, Systems Neuroscience Secondary Section: 52, Psychological and Cognitive Sciences Membership Type:
Member
(elected 2021)
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Biosketch
Tirin Moore is visual neuroscientist who studies the neural mechanisms of visual-motor integration and the neural basis of cognition. His research has made fundamental and insightful contributions to our understanding of the neuronal circuitry of visual spatial attention. Professor Moore was born in Oakland, California and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. He graduated summa cum laude with a degree in Biological Psychology from California State University, Chico, and received his Ph.D. from Princeton University, where he was a National Science Foundation fellow. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2003, he started his own laboratory at Stanford University, where he is currently a Professor of Neurobiology and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. Professor Moore has received the Troland Research Award and the Pradel Research Award, both from the National Academy of Sciences, for his work on visual attention. He is also a member the National Academy of Medicine.
Research Interests
Tirin Moore’s laboratory studies the primate visual system and the neural mechanisms of visually guided behavior. He is particularly interested in how sensory information is used to guide movements and how the preparation of movements interacts with ongoing sensory processing. To understand sensorimotor integration, his laboratory has focused on the reciprocal interactions between visual cortical neurons and those involved in the control of gaze, which in primates, comprises a major component of visually guided behavior. This work led to the discovery that visual attention, a basic cognitive function, is causally linked to neural mechanisms controlling gaze. Consequently, his laboratory also studies the neural basis of cognitive functions.
