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.
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.
[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.
[7] In the early 2000s, Moore, Michael Graziano and Charlotte Taylor discovered a map of complex movements in motor and premotor cortex.