Cynthia F. Moss Professor | |
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Born | Columbus, Ohio |
Occupation(s) | Professor in Psychological and Brain Sciences, Neuroscience, and Mechanical Engineering |
Spouse | Donald Berger |
Children | Natalie Louise, Jackson Raymond and Peter Ethan |
Parent(s) | Howard A. and Adrienne H. Moss |
Academic background | |
Education | B.S., Summa cum laude University of Massachusetts Ph.D., Brown University |
Alma mater | Brown University |
Thesis | Hearing sensitivity and frequency selectivity in the green treefrog, Hyla cinerea (1986) |
Doctoral advisor | Andrea Megela Simmons |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Neuroscientist |
Sub-discipline | Sensory information processing and adaptive motor control |
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Cynthia F. Moss is an American neuroscientist and Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins University, with joint appointments in the Departments of Neuroscience and Mechanical Engineering. Moss is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Acoustical Society of America, and the International Society for Neuroethology. Her research focuses on the mechanisms of sensory-motor integration, scene perception, spatial attention, and spatial memory.