Tirin Moore

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]

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. His lab also discovered that dopamine transmission in prefrontal cortex regulates prefrontal influence on visual processing in posterior cortex.[2]

• 2005 American Physiological Society Alumni Achievement Award[4]
• 2009 National Academy of Sciences Troland Award[5]
• 2014 Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute[6]
• 2018 Elected to the National Academy of Medicine[7]
• 2021 National Academy of Sciences Pradel Research Award[3]
• 2021 Elected to the National Academy of Sciences[8]
• 2021 Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences[9]

• Marc Zirnsak; Nicholas A Steinmetz; Behrad Noudoost; Kitty Z Xu; Tirin Moore (1 March 2014). "Visual space is compressed in prefrontal cortex before eye movements". Nature. 507 (7493): 504–507. doi:10.1038/NATURE13149. ISSN 1476-4687. PMC 4064801. PMID 24670771. Wikidata Q40930516.
• Robert J Schafer; Tirin Moore (26 May 2011). "Selective attention from voluntary control of neurons in prefrontal cortex". Science. 332 (6037): 1568–1571. doi:10.1126/SCIENCE.1199892. ISSN 0036-8075. PMC 3371378. PMID 21617042. Wikidata Q30515718.
• 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.
• 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.
• Michael S A Graziano; Charlotte S R Taylor; Tirin Moore; Michael S A Graziano; Charlotte S R Taylor; Tirin Moore (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.
• 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)