Christopher Moore studies touch perception, with an emphasis on brain dynamics and how they shape what we feel.

Investigator, McGovern Institute; Assistant Professor of Neuroscience, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences Moore lab site

Contact phone: 617 452 3526 MIT Bldg 46-2171C email: cim@ai.mit.edu

Christopher Moore works on understanding the neural mechanisms of tactile perception. His work focuses on the context-dependent representation of information in somatosensory cortex, and tactile motion processing. To investigate these questions, he employs electrophysiological and imaging (optical imaging and fMRI) approaches in humans and animal model systems.

Moore earned his doctorate in Brain and Cognitive Science at MIT, and conducted his postdoctoral work at The Martinos Center and UCSF. He joined the McGovern Institute in 2003 as both an Assistant Professor of Systems Neuroscience and a McGovern Investigator. Dr. Moore has published more than 30 articles and chapters, and is a member of the Society for Neuroscience and the Cognitive Neuroscience Society.