| Citation | Moore is distinguished for his research on the psychophysics of auditory perception in normal and hearing impaired listeners. His research has led to new insights into the mechanisms of pitch perception, frequency selectivity and intensity coding and has had direct impact on the design of hearing aids and on the control of environmental noise pollution. He has shown that pitch, including speech, is partially coded in terms of neural phase?locking to the individual cycles of the stimulus waveform for frequencies below 4?5 kHz. He was the first to show that a complex tone could evoke a musical pitch when there was no possibility of the individual harmonics being resolved in the auditory periphery. He has developed new techniques for estimating the characteristics of auditory filters and their use in predicting when one sound will mask another. His discovery that intensity coding in the auditory system was not due to the spread of excitation led to his development of a model that can accurately predict the loudness of a complex sound. These findings formed the basis for subsequent work on the nature of hearing loss. He was the first to show that loudness recruitment was not due to spread of excitation but the loss of the auditory system's compressive nonlinearity. His model for loudness perception accounts separately for hearing loss caused by damage to outer and inner hair cells in the cochlea. He has made seminal contributions in developing and evaluating methods of processing sounds so as to compensate for the suprathreshold distortions associated with cochlear damage. |