Cynthia Moss
Johns Hopkins University
Biography
Cynthia F. Moss is professor of psychological and brain sciences at Johns Hopkins University, with joint appointments in neuroscience and mechanical engineering and a position at the Kavli Neuroscience Discovery Institute. Her research investigates brain-circuit dynamics in echolocating bats engaged in natural tasks, combining synchronised high-speed infrared stereo video, ultrasound microphone arrays and multichannel neural recordings. She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and currently president of the International Society for Neuroethology, and her honours include the Alexander von Humboldt Research Award and the William and Christine Hartmann Prize in Auditory Neuroscience.
Research Interests
- echolocation
- active sensing
- auditory neuroscience
- 3D navigation
- bat behaviour
SCENE Teams
Featured Publications
The Simons Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience: Studying how the brain interacts with the world
Angelaki DE, Batista A, Fitzgerald T, Kominsky JF, Lengyel M, Mathis A, Mathis MW, Moss CF, Niell CM, Noel JP, Pitkow X, Rothkopf CA, Savin C, Stachenfeld K, Suthana N, Tolias A, Ulanovsky N, Wolpert DM, Wong A, Zimmermann J
Neuron, 2026 · DOI (opens in new tab) · Preprint (PDF) (opens in new tab)
Natural auditory behaviors invoke cognitive brain networks
Krishna A, Capshaw G, Moss CF
Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 2026 · DOI (opens in new tab)
Sparse-to-dense coding transformation between hippocampal areas CA3 and CA1
Maimon SR, Eliav T, Aljadeff J, Shalev A, Gronich Y, Finger NM, Eveland KE, Moss CF, Las L, Ulanovsky N
Nature, 2026 · DOI (opens in new tab)