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Cynthia F. Moss is an American neuroscientist and professor of Psychology and Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins University, with additional affiliations in neuroscience and mechanical engineering[1][2] [3][4]. Moss holds memberships in professional societies, including being a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2012), the Acoustical Society of America (2001), and the International Society for Neuroethology.[5][6] Her research focuses on the mechanisms of sensory-motor integration, scene perception, spatial attention, and memory.[5]

Education edit

Moss graduated with a B.S. (summa cum laude) from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and earned her Ph.D. from Brown University.[7] Following graduation, she served as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Tübingen, Germany, and later as a Research Fellow at Brown University before assuming a faculty position at Harvard University. [7]During her time at Harvard, Moss was honored with the Phi Beta Kappa teaching award (1992) and appointed as the Morris Kahn Associate Professor.[7] Additionally, she received the National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award.[7]

Moss worked at the University of Maryland, where she held a professorship in the Department of Psychology and the Institute for Systems Research.[7] During her tenure at Maryland, she took on the role of Director of the interdepartmental graduate program in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science.[7] In recognition of her scholarly contributions, Moss was bestowed with the University of Maryland Regents Faculty Award for Research and Creativity in 2010.[5]

In 2014, Moss joined the faculty at Johns Hopkins University including the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Whiting School of Engineering, and the School of Medicine.[5] Notable accolades in recent years include the Hartmann Award in Auditory Neuroscience (2017), the James McKeen Cattell Award (2018), and the Alexander von Humboldt Research Prize (2019).[8]

Research and Career edit

Moss’ research seeks to address questions relating to the brain’s capability of representing dynamic sensory information from the natural environment and the sensory and motor activity patterns that work together to mediate actions in three-dimensional space.[7] Her lab primarily focuses on studying bats to answer these questions.[9] Through exploitation of echolocation and other sensory-directed behaviors of bats–detected via high-speed audio and video recordings–Moss’ lab can analyze social interactions, target discrimination and tracking, obstacle and avoidance, and navigation of these animals.[10][11][12]

Specifically, these neural recordings focus on three primary brain regions: the hippocampus, midbrain superior colliculus and somatosensory cortex.[13] Moss researches hippocampal activity in freely echolocating bats and has found that hippocampal place cells are implicated in spatial navigation and memory.[13] Additionally, current research projects and goals are centered on the mechanisms of sensorimotor integration, scene perception, spatial attention, and memory.[14]

Awards and honors edit

Cynthia Moss has won awards and honors including the following:

  • 1979 - Phi Beta Kappa, University of Massachusetts Chapter
  • (1981-1984) - National Science Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship
  • (1985-1986) - NATO Postdoctoral Fellowship (National Science Foundation)
  • (1986-1987) -Seibert Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biology (AAUW Educational Foundation)
  • 1992 - Phi Beta Kappa Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
  • (1992-1998) - NSF NYI Award in Science and Engineering
  • 1994 - Morris Kahn Endowed Chair
  • 2000-2001, 2008-2009 - Fellow at the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study
  • 2001 Acoustical Society of America Member
  • 2004- NSF-AAAS Visualization Challenge, First Place in Multimedia Division
  • 2009 - Institute for Systems Research Outstanding Faculty of the Year Award, with collaborators, Horiuchi and Krishnaprasad
  • 2010- Regents’ Faculty Award for Research, Scholarship and Creative Activities
  • 2012- Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • 2017- Hartman Award in Auditory Neuroscience
  • 2018- James McKeen Cattell Award
  • 2019- Alexander von Humboldt Research Prize[15]

Published Works edit

Moss, C. F., & Shettleworth, S. J. (Eds.). (1996). Neuroethological studies of cognitive and perceptual processes. Westview Press.

Thomas, J. A., Moss, C. F., & Vater, M. (Eds.). (2002). Echolocation in Bats and Dolphins. University of Chicago Press. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/E/bo3612864.html

Selected publications edit

  • Yu, C. and Moss, C.F. Echolocating bats inspect and discriminate landmark features to guide navigation, Journal of Experimental Biology, 2019, 222, doi:10.1242/jeb.191965.
  • Luo, J., Macias, S., Ness, T.V., Einevoll, G.T., Zhang, K. and Moss, C.F. Neural timing of stimulus events with microsecond precision, PLoS Biology, 2018 doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2006422.
  • Luo, J., Hage, S. and Moss, C.F. The Lombard effect: from acoustics to neural mechanisms, Trends in Neurosciences, 2018, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tins.2018.07.011.
  • Warnecke, M., Macias, S., Falk, B., and Moss, C.F. Echo interval and not echo intensity drives bat flight behavior in structured corridors, Journal of Experimental Biology, 2018, 221, doi: 10.1242/jeb.191155.
  • Kothari, N., Wohlgemuth, M., and Moss, C.F. Dynamic representation of 3D auditory space in the midbrain of the free-flying echolocating bat, eLife, 2018; 7:e29053. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.29053.
  • Wohlgemuth, M.J., Kothari, N.B. and Moss, C.F. Midbrain functional organization and dynamic coding for natural orientation, Journal of Neuroscience, 2018, 38 (1) 245-256. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1775-17.2017.
  • Corcoran, A. and Moss, C.F. Sensing in a noisy world: lessons from an auditory specialist, the echolocating bat. Journal of Experimental Biology, 2017, 220: 4554-4566; doi:10.1242/jeb.163063.
  • Luo, J. and Moss, C.F. Echolocating bats rely on audiovocal feedback to adapt sonar signal design, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2017, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1711892114.
  • Luo, J., Kothari, N.B. and Moss, C.F. Sensorimotor integration on a rapid time scale. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2017, doi:10.1073/pnas.1702671114.
  • Wohlgemuth, M.J. ​and Moss, C.F​. Midbrain auditory selectivity to natural sounds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 2016, 113(9): 2508-2513. doi:10.1073/pnas.1517451113
  • Heys, J.G., Shay, C.F., MacLeod, K.M., Witter, M.P., Moss, C.F. and Hasselmo, M.E.  Physiological Properties of Neurons in Bat Entorhinal Cortex Exhibit an Inverse Gradient along the Dorsal – Ventral Axis Compared to Entorhinal Neurons in Rat. The Journal of Neuroscience, April 20, 2016 36(16):4591 – 4599 4591. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1791-15.2016
  • Warnecke, M. ​Lee, W.-J., ​Krishnan, A.​ and  Moss, C.F.​. Dynamic Echo Information Guides Flight in the Big Brown Bat. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 25 April 2016 doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2016.00081
  • Lee, W.-J.​ and Moss, C.F​. Can the elongated hindwing tails of fluttering moths serve as false sonar targets to divert bat attacks? J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 139 (5), May 2016. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4947423
  • Wohlgemuth, M., Luo, J., and Moss, C.F. 3D auditory localization in bats. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 2016, 78-86. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conb.2016.08.002
  • Wohlgemuth, M., Kothari, N.B., and Moss, C.F. Action enhances acoustic cues for auditory localization in echolocating bats. Public Library of Science Biology, DOI:10.1371/journal.pbio.1002544 September 8, 2016.
  • Marshall, K. L., Chadha, M., deSouza, L. A., Sterbing-D'Angelo, S. J., Moss, C. F., and Lumpkin, E. A. Somatosensory substrates of flight control in bats. CellReports, May2015. doi:10.1016/j.celrep.2015.04.001.
  • Falk, B., ​Kasnadi, J. ​and Moss, C.F. Tight coordination of aerial flight maneuvers and sonar call production in insectivorous bats. Journal of Experimental Biology, 2015, 218: 3678-3688. doi: 10.1242/jeb.122283
  • Hulgard, K., Moss, C.F., Jakobsen, L., and Surlykke, A. Big brown bats (Eptesicus fuscus) emit intense search calls and fly in stereotyped flight paths as they forage in the wild. Journal of Experimental Biology, 2015. doi: 10.1242/jeb.128983.
  • Danilovich, S, Krishnan, A. Lee, W-J, Borrisov, I, Eitan, O., Kosa, G. Moss, C.F., and Yovel, Y. Bats regulate biosonar based on the availability of visual information. Current Biology, 2015, 25(23), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2015.11.003 pR1124-R1125.
  • Warnecke M.​,Chiu C, Engelberg J.​, & Moss C.​F. Active Listening in a Bat Cocktail Party: Adaptive Echolocation and Flight Behaviors of Big Brown Bats, Eptesicus fuscus, Foraging in a Cluttered Acoustic Environment. Brain, behavior and evolution, 2015 Sep;86(1):6-16. doi: 10.1159/000437346. Epub 2015 Sep 24.
  • Kothari, N., Wohlgemuth, M., Hulgard, K., Surlykke, A., and Moss, C.F. Timing matters: Sonar call groups facilitate spatio-temporal target localization in bats. Frontiers in Physiology, 2014, published online April 11, 2014. https://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2014.00168
  • Wright, G., Chiu, C., Xian, W., Wilkinson, G., and Moss, C.F. Social calls predict foraging success in big brown bats, Current Biology, 2014, 24: 885-889. PDF
  • Falk, B., Jakobsen, L., Surlykke, A., and Moss, C. F. Bats coordinate sonar and flight behavior as they forage in open and cluttered environments. Journal of Experimental Biology, 2014, 217(24): 4356-4364. PDF
  • Lewicki, M.S., Olshausen, B.A., Surlykke A., and Moss, C.F. Scene analysis in the natural environment, Frontiers in Perception, April 2014 doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00199.
  • Heys, J.G., MacLeod, K., Moss, C.F., and Hasselmo, M.  Bat and rat neurons differ in theta frequency resonance despite similar spatial coding, Science, 2013, 340: 363-367.
  • Moss, C.F., Chiu, C. and Surlykke, A. Adaptive vocal behavior drives perception by echolocation in bats.  Current Opinion in Neurobiology, Sensory and Motor Systems, 2011, Volume 21, Issue 4, August 2011, Pages 645-652, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.conb.2011.05.028.
  • Sterbing-D’Angelo, S.J., Chadha, M., Falk, B. Barcelo, J, Zook, J.M. and Moss, C.F., Bat wing sensors support flight control, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2011, 108 (27): 11291-11296.
  • Yovel, Y., Falk, Ben, Moss, C.F., and Ulanovksy, N. Active control of acoustic field-of-view in a biosonar system, PLoS Biology, 2011, September 2011, vol., 9 (9) e1001150 .
  • Ulanovsky, N. and Moss, C.F.  Dynamics of hippocampal spatial representation in echolocating bats, Hippocampus, DOI: 10.1002/hipo.20731; 2011, Volume 21, 2, 150–161.
  • Moss, C. F. and Surlykke, A. Probing the natural scene by echolocation.  Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience.  Special Issue in Neuroethology, 2010, doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2010.00033
  • Yovel, Y., Falk, Ben, Moss, C.F., and Ulanovksy, N.  Bats fly straight but ping sideways to optimize localization.  Science, 2010, Vol. 327. no. 5966, 70 -704.
  • Surlykke, A., Ghose, K., and Moss, C.F.  Acoustic scanning of natural scenes by echolocation in bats.  Journal of Experimental Biology, 2009, 212: 1011-1029.
  • Chiu, C., Xian, W. and Moss, C.F. Flying in silence:  Echolocating bats cease vocalizing to avoid sonar jamming. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2008, 105(35): 13115-13120.
  • Ulanovsky, N. and Moss, C.F.   What the bat’s voice tells the bat’s brain.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2008, 105: 8491-8498.
  • Ulanovsky, N and Moss, C.F. Hippocampal cellular and network activity in freely-moving echolocating bats, Nature Neuroscience, 2007, 10(2): 224-233.  
  • Sinha, S.R. and Moss, C.F. Vocal pre–motor activity in the superior colliculus, Journal of Neuroscience, 2007, 27(1): 98-110.
  • Ghose, K. and Moss, C.F.  Steering by hearing:  A bat’s acoustic gaze is linked to its flight motor output by a delayed, adaptive linear law.  Journal of Neuroscience, 2006, 26: 1704-1710.
  • Valentine, D.E. and Moss, C.F. Spatially-selective auditory responses in the superior colliculus of the echolocating bat.  Journal of Neuroscience, 1997, 17: 1720-1733.

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