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Tirin Moore

Tirin Moore

American neuroscientist

Tirin Moore (born June 12, 1969) is an American neuroscientist who is a Professor of Neurobiology at Stanford University and Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He is known for his work on the neural mechanisms of visual perception, visually guided behavior and cognition. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and to the National Academy of Sciences in 2021.

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Early life and education

Moore was born in Oakland, California.[1] He was an undergraduate student at California State University, Chico. Moore was awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship in the laboratory of Charles Gross [2] at Princeton University, where he studied residual visual function after damage to striate cortex. Moore moved to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for his postdoctoral research, where he worked with Peter H. Schiller.[2] There he studied the modulation of visual cortical signals during eye movements.[2] He returned to Princeton, where he started studying neural mechanisms of visual attention (i.e. the tendency of visual processing to be confined largely to stimuli that are relevant to behavior).[2]

Research and career

Moore was appointed to the faculty at Stanford University in 2003.[1] He investigates the neural circuits that underlie visual perception, visually guided behavior and cognition. He studies the integration of visual and motor signals, and particularly the influence of motor preparation on visual processing.[3]
Moore showed that visual spatial attention is causally linked to the neurons in prefrontal cortex that control gaze, specifically within the frontal eye fields.[3][4][5] His lab also discovered that dopamine transmission in prefrontal cortex regulates prefrontal influence on visual processing in posterior cortex[6] and provided the first evidence of a causal role of posterior parietal cortex in stimulus-driven visual attention.[7]
In the early 2000s, Moore, Michael Graziano and Charlotte Taylor discovered a map of complex movements in motor and premotor cortex.[8]

Awards and honors

References

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    Tirin Moore. OCLC 4780102399.
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    "Tirin Moore | Gruber Foundation". gruber.yale.edu. Retrieved 2021-05-04.
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    Tirin Moore; Katherine M Armstrong (1 January 2003). "Selective gating of visual signals by microstimulation of frontal cortex". Nature. 421 (6921): 370–373. doi:10.1038/NATURE01341. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 12540901. Wikidata Q48403964.
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    Tirin Moore; Mazyar Fallah (16 January 2001). "Control of eye movements and spatial attention". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 98 (3): 1273–1276. doi:10.1073/PNAS.021549498. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 14744. PMID 11158629. Wikidata Q34659730. (erratum)
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    Robert J Schafer; Tirin Moore (26 May 2011). "Selective attention from voluntary control of neurons in prefrontal cortex". Science. 332 (6037): 1568–1571. Bibcode:2011Sci...332.1568S. doi:10.1126/SCIENCE.1199892. ISSN 0036-8075. PMC 3371378. PMID 21617042. Wikidata Q30515718.
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    Behrad Noudoost; Tirin Moore (15 May 2011). "Control of visual cortical signals by prefrontal dopamine". Nature. 474 (7351): 372–375. doi:10.1038/NATURE09995. ISSN 1476-4687. PMC 3117113. PMID 21572439. Wikidata Q35051072.
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    Xiaomo Chen; Marc Zirnsak; Gabriel M Vega; Eshan Govil; Stephen G Lomber; Tirin Moore (29 January 2020). "Parietal Cortex Regulates Visual Salience and Salience-Driven Behavior". Neuron. doi:10.1016/J.NEURON.2020.01.016. ISSN 0896-6273. PMID 32048996. Wikidata Q89673855.
  8. [8]
    Michael S A Graziano; Charlotte S R Taylor; Tirin Moore; Michael S A Graziano; Charlotte S R Taylor (30 May 2002). "Complex movements evoked by microstimulation of precentral cortex". Neuron. 34 (5): 841-51, 841-851. doi:10.1016/S0896-6273(02)00698-0. ISSN 0896-6273. PMID 12062029. Wikidata Q109380565.
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    "Minority Fellowship Program". www.apa.org. Retrieved 2021-05-04.
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    "2009 Troland Research Award Recipients". www.apa.org. Retrieved 2021-05-04.
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    "Tirin Moore, PhD HHMI Investigator 2014-Present". www.hhmi.org. Retrieved 2021-11-04.
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    "Seven Black Scholars in the Latest Cohort of New Members of the National Academy of Medicine". The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education. 2018-01-01. Retrieved 2021-05-04.
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    News, Stanford (26 January 2021). "Tirin Moore awarded NAS Pradel Research Award | Stanford Report". news.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2022-03-28. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
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    University, Stanford (2021-04-27). "Six faculty elected to National Academy of Sciences". Stanford Today. Retrieved 2021-05-04.
  15. [15]
    "Honoring Excellence, Electing New Members". American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 22 April 2021. Retrieved 2021-11-03.
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