Tirin Moore, Ph.D.

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Tirin Moore, Ph.D.
Title
Ben Barres Professor of Neurobiology Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Department
Neurobiology
Institution
Stanford University School of Medicine
Address
Sherman Fairchild Building
299 Campus Drive
City, State, ZIP
Stanford, CA 94305
Phone
(650) 725-8712
Email
[email protected]
Website
http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Tirin_Moore/
Research field
Neuroscience
Award year
2004

Research

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.

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