Tirin Moore
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Tirin Moore | |
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| Born | June 12, 1969 |
| Alma mater | Princeton University California State University, Chico |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Stanford University Howard Hughes Medical Institute Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Thesis | Studies of residual visual function after damage to striate cortex in infant and adult monkeys (1995) |
| Website | Moore Lab Stanford |
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.
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]
