Talk title: 

Shared Neural Circuitry of Visuomotor Integration and Visual Cognition

On Zoom only: https://mit.zoom.us/j/98434513260 (MIT login required)

Speaker bio:

Colloquium on the Brain and Cognition: 
The 2022 Bidwell Lecture
Shared Neural Circuitry of Visuomotor Integration and Visual Cognition
Speaker: Tirin Moore, Stanford University and HHMI

Thursday, April 14, 2022
4:00 – 5:00 pm

On Zoom: Click here to join (MIT login required)   
Followed by an in-person reception in the Atrium

Contact: wileyj9@mit.edu

Speaker bio: Tirin Moore studies the neural mechanisms of visual-motor integration and the neural basis of cognition. His research has made fundamental and insightful contributions to our understanding of the neuronal circuitry of visual spatial attention. Professor Moore was born in Oakland, California and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. He graduated summa cum laude with a degree in Biological Psychology from California State University, Chico, and received his Ph.D. from Princeton University, where he was a National Science Foundation fellow. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2003, he started his own laboratory at Stanford University, where he is currently a Professor of Neurobiology and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. Professor Moore has received the Troland Research Award and the Pradel Research Award, both from the National Academy of Sciences, for his work on visual attention. 

Moore's work demonstrates how neural activity in motor regions of the prefrontal cortex influences visual representations in the brain. This establishes a deeper understanding of brain mechanisms underlying spatial attention, and is important to clinical understanding of attention disorders such as ADHD.

A leading investigator worldwide in the field of systems and cognitive neuroscience, Moore is an outstanding neuroscientist whose work greatly expands our understanding of the neurological origins of selective attention and motor control, constituting one of the most rigorous and focused bodies of work on this topic in recent years. 

The Margaret Bidwell Memorial Lecture is part of the MIT Colloquium on the Brain and Cognition series. This seminar is made possible by a gift established in 1997 by MIT alumnus John Bidwell, in honor of his late wife, who died of ALS in 1983. John Bidwell passed away in 2017. Speakers are nominated and invited by BCS faculty. Previous speakers have included Carla Shatz, Dennis Selkoe, Edward Scolnick, and Linda Buck.
 

About the Bidwell Lecture: The Margaret Bidwell Memorial Lecture is part of the MIT Colloquium on the Brain and Cognition series. This seminar is made possible by a gift established in 1997 by MIT alumnus John Bidwell, in honor of his late wife, who died of ALS in 1983. John Bidwell passed away in 2017. Speakers are nominated and invited by BCS faculty. Previous speakers have included Carla Shatz, Dennis Selkoe, Edward Scolnick, and Linda Buck.