[BIC-announce] FW: Killam Lecture on Tuesday May 26/09

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Killam Lecture

Speaker:  Tirin Moore, Ph.D., Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA

Title:  Neural Mechanisms and Control of Visual Attention

Date: May 26, 2009

Place: de Grandpré Communication Centre

Time: 4:00 pm

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Tirin Moore is a leader in the study of the neural mechanisms of visual-motor integration and the neural basis of cognition (e.g. attention). He and his student's 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 his 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? 
Below is a selection from his impressive publication list.

*	Attention governs action in the primate frontal eye field. <http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/frdActionServlet?choiceId=showPublication&pubid=266716&fid=3946>  Schafer RJ, Moore T "Neuron" 2007; 56: 3: 541-51 
*	Rapid enhancement of visual cortical response discriminability by microstimulation of the frontal eye field. <http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/frdActionServlet?choiceId=showPublication&pubid=235596&fid=3946>  Armstrong KM, Moore T "Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A" 2007; 
*	Changes in visual receptive fields with microstimulation of frontal cortex. <http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/frdActionServlet?choiceId=showPublication&pubid=155489&fid=3946>  Armstrong KM, Fitzgerald JK, Moore T "Neuron" 2006; 50: 5: 791-8 
*	Representations of faces and body parts in macaque temporal cortex: A functional MRI study. <http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/frdActionServlet?choiceId=showPublication&pubid=55442&fid=3946>  Pinsk MA, Desimone K, Moore T, Gross CG, Kastner S "Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A" 2005; 
*	Selective gating of visual signals by microstimulation of frontal cortex. <http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/frdActionServlet?choiceId=showPublication&pubid=40676&fid=3946>  Moore T, Armstrong KM "Nature" 2003; 421: 6921: 370-3 
*	Presaccadic discrimination of receptive field stimuli by area V4 neurons. <http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/frdActionServlet?choiceId=showPublication&pubid=655845&fid=3946>  Moore T, Chang MH "Vision Res" 2008; 
*	Electrical signals propagate unbiased in cortex. <http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/frdActionServlet?choiceId=showPublication&pubid=258944&fid=3946>  Gilja V, Moore T "Neuron" 2007; 55: 5: 684-6 
*	Temporal patterning of saccadic eye movement signals. <http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/frdActionServlet?choiceId=showPublication&pubid=244345&fid=3946>  Kimmel DL, Moore T "J Neurosci" 2007; 27: 29: 7619-30 
*	Visual and oculomotor selection: links, causes and implications for spatial attention. <http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/frdActionServlet?choiceId=showPublication&pubid=128087&fid=3946>  Awh E, Armstrong KM, Moore T "Trends Cogn Sci" 2006; 10: 3: 124-30 
*	The neurobiology of visual attention: finding sources. <http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/frdActionServlet?choiceId=showPublication&pubid=135803&fid=3946>  Moore T, "Curr Opin Neurobiol" 2006; 
*	Microstimulation of the frontal eye field and its effects on covert spatial attention. <http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/frdActionServlet?choiceId=showPublication&pubid=15857&fid=3946>  Moore T, Fallah M "J Neurophysiol" 2004; 91: 1: 152-62 
*	Visually guided behavior after V1 lesions in young and adult monkeys and its relation to blindsight in humans. <http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/frdActionServlet?choiceId=showPublication&pubid=48067&fid=3946>  Gross CG, Moore T, Rodman HR "Prog Brain Res" 2004; 144: 279-94 
*	Distribution of hand location in monkeys during spontaneous behavior. <http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/frdActionServlet?choiceId=showPublication&pubid=48066&fid=3946>  Graziano MS, Cooke DF, Taylor CS, Moore T "Exp Brain Res" 2004; 155: 1: 30-6 
*	Visuomotor origins of covert spatial attention. <http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/frdActionServlet?choiceId=showPublication&pubid=40682&fid=3946>  Moore T, Armstrong KM, Fallah M "Neuron" 2003; 40: 4: 671-83 
*	Complex movements evoked by microstimulation of the ventral intraparietal area. <http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/frdActionServlet?choiceId=showPublication&pubid=48065&fid=3946>  Cooke DF, Taylor CS, Moore T, Graziano MS "Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A" 2003; 100: 10: 6163-8 
*	The cortical control of movement revisited. <http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/frdActionServlet?choiceId=showPublication&pubid=48060&fid=3946>  Graziano MS, Taylor CS, Moore T, Cooke DF "Neuron" 2002; 36: 3: 349-62 
*	Probing cortical function with electrical stimulation. <http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/frdActionServlet?choiceId=showPublication&pubid=48068&fid=3946>  Graziano MS, Taylor CS, Moore T "Nat Neurosci" 2002; 5: 10: 921 
*	Complex movements evoked by microstimulation of precentral cortex. <http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/frdActionServlet?choiceId=showPublication&pubid=48061&fid=3946>  Graziano MS, Taylor CS, Moore T "Neuron" 2002; 34: 5: 841-51 