WELCOME Dr. Moore is currently the Chief of the Biodynamics and Biocommunications Division at Wright-Patterson AFB. As the Basic Research Coordinator for the division, Dr. Moore developed and maintained a vital basic research effort comprised of several separate yet interrelated efforts. The effects on the acoustic speech signal of the various stressors found in the cockpit was completed after a series of successful investigations. Dr. Moore established an in-house Psychoacoustics Laboratory that is studying the perception of complex auditory signals, an in-house Neural Nets Laboratory that is investigating the use of auditory models as pre-processors for neural nets designed to perform speech recognition, and efforts to investigate the g-excess effect and to develop a research program for spatial disorientation. Dr. Moore has conducted a series of experiments investigating signal processing capabilities of human and animal auditory systems which formed the basis for developing analog models of the auditory system and the in-house development of an automatic speech recognition system. Dr. Moore pioneered the use of speech as an input signal in single-cell neurophysiological studies, a practice that is now in general use in neurophysiological investigations of the auditory system.

Dr. Thomas J. Moore