Michael J. Morgan 

               

Applied Vision Research Centre

The Wellcome Trust Book Prize

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Biography

Born in Cardiff, 25 Aug 1942.
Natural Sciences Tripos, Cambridge 1964
Ph.D Cambridge 1969 "A study of response learning in the rat".
Sc.D Cambridge 1994.
Currently Professor of Visual Psychophysics at the The City University.
Previous positions at University of Cambridge (Experimental Psychology), McGill University (Psychology), University of Durham (Chair of Psychology), UCL (Psychology), University of Edinburgh (Darwin Fellow in Pharmacology, Centre for Neuroscience).
Research interests include Vision, Laterality, Experimental Psychology.
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Applied Vision Research Centre

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Recent Papers and Preprints

·  Tibber, M, Grant, S & Morgan, MJ(2009)
Occulomotor responses and visuospatial perpeptual judgments compete for common limited resources
Journal of Vision,9,1-13 3217-24. [PubMed] [Manuscript]

·  Melmoth, D, Tibber, M, Grant, S & Morgan, MJ(2009)
The Poggendorff Illusion affacts manual pointing as well as Perceptual Judgments
Neuropsychologia, 47 3217-24. [PubMed] [Manuscript]

·  Nam,J-H, Solomon, JA, Morgan, MJ, Wright, CE & Chubb, C (2009)
Coherent plaids are preattentively more than the sum of their parts
Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 71 1469-1477. [PubMed] [Manuscript]

·  Michael J. Morgan (2009)
The Spread of Happiness in Social Networks: commentary
British Medical Journal [Manuscript]

·  Marc S. Tibber, Elaine J. Anderson, Dean R. Melmoth, Geraint Rees, and Michael J. Morgan (2009)
Common Cortical Loci Are Activated during Visuospatial Interpolation and Orientation Discrimination Judgements
PLoS ONE, 4(2) e4585. [PubMed] [Manuscript]

·  Spang, K & Morgan, MJ (2008)
Cortical correlates of stereoscopic depth produced by temporal delay
J. Vision, 8,, 1-12. [PubMed] [Manuscript]

·  Tibber, MS, Melmoth, DR & Morgan, MJ (2008)
Biases and sensitivities in the Poggendorf effect when driven by subjective contours
Invest. Ophthal. Vis. Sci., 49, 474-8. [PubMed] [Manuscript]

·  Mareschal, I., & Solomon, J. A. & Morgan, M. J. (2008)
Contextual effects on decision templates for parafoveal orientation identification.
Vision Research, 48, 2689-2695. [PubMed] [Manuscript]

·  Morgan, M., Chubb, C. & Solomon, J. A. (2008)
A "dipper" function for texture discrimination based on orientation variance.
Journal of Vision, 8(11):9, 1-8. [Article]

·  Gheri, C, Chopping, S & Morgan, M.J. (2008)
Synaesthetic colours do not camouflage form in visual search.
Proc. Roy. Soc. B, 275(2)841-246. [PubMed] [Article]

·  Morgan, M., Chubb, C. & Solomon, J. A. (2006)
Predicting the motion aftereffect from sensitivity loss
Vision Research, 46, 2412-2420. [PubMed][Article]

·  Morgan, M., Giora, E. & Solomon, J. A. (2008)
A single "stopwatch" for duration estimation; a single "ruler" for size.
Journal of Vision, 8(2):14, 1-8. [PubMed] [Article]

·  Gheri, C., Morgan, M. J. & Solomon, J. A. (2007)
The relationship between search efficiency and crowding.
Perception, 36, 1779-1787. [Manuscript] [Article]

·  Morgan, M. J., McEwan, W. & Solomon, J. A. (2007)
The lingering effects of an artificial blind spot.
PLoS ONE, 2, e256. [PubMed] [Article]

·  Solomon, J. A. & Morgan, M. J. (2006)
Stochastic re-calibration: contextual effects on perceived tilt.
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences, 273, 2681-2686. [PubMed] [Article]

·  Morgan, M., Chubb, C. & Solomon, J. A. (2006) Predicting the motion after-effect from sensitivity loss.
Vision Research, 46, 2412-2420. [Manuscript] [PubMed]

·  Morgan, M. J. & Solomon, J. A. (2006)
Attentional capacity limit causes spatial neglect in normal observers.
Vision Research, 46, 1868-1875. [Pre-print] [PubMed]

·  Solomon, J. A., John, A. & Morgan, M. J. (2006)
Monocular texture segmentation and proto-rivalry.
Vision Research, 46, 1488-1492. [Manuscript] [PubMed]

·  Felisberti, F. M., Solomon, J. A. & Morgan, M. J. (2005)
The role of target salience in crowding.
Perception, 34, 823-833. [Manuscript] [Article]

·  Morgan, M. J. (2005)
The visual computation of area by human observers.
Vision Research, 45, 2564-2570. [PubMed] [Article]

·  Solomon, J. A., Chubb, C., John, A. & Morgan, M. (2005)
Stimulus contrast and the Reichardt detector.
Vision Research, 45, 2109-2117. [Manuscript] [PubMed]

·  Solomon, J. A., Felisberti, F. M. & Morgan, M. J. (2004)
Crowding and the tilt illusion: Toward a unified account.
Journal of Vision, 4, 500-508. [PubMed] [Article]

·  Parkes, L., Lund, J., Angelucci, A., Solomon, J. A. & Morgan, M. J. (2001)
Compulsory averaging of crowded orientation signals in human vision.
Nature Neuroscience, 4, 739-744. [Manuscript] [PubMed]

·  Solomon, J. A. & Morgan, M. J. (2001)
Odd-men-out are poorly localized in brief displays.
Journal of Vision, 1, 9-17. [Article]

·  Solomon, J. A. & Morgan, M. J. (2000)
Facilitation from collinear flanks is cancelled by non-collinear flanks.
Vision Research, 40, 279-286. [Manuscript] [PubMed]

·  Solomon, J. A. & Morgan, M. J. (1999)
Dichoptically cancelled motion.
Vision Research, 39, 2293-2297. [Manuscript] [PubMed]

·  Solomon, J. A., Watson, A. B. & Morgan, M. J. (1999)
Transducer model produces facilitation from opposite-sign flanks.
Vision Research, 39, 987-992. [PubMed] [Article]

·  Solomon, J. A., Lavie, N. & Morgan, M. J. (1997)
The contrast discrimination function: spatial cuing effects.
Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 14, 2443-2448. [Article]

·  Morgan, M. J., Mason, A. J. S. & Solomon, J. A. (1997)
"Blindsight" in normal Subjects?
Nature, 385, 401-402. [PubMed] [Expanded Manuscript]

·  Morgan, M. J. & Castet, E. (1997)
The Aperture Problem in Stereopsis
Vision Research, 37, 2737-2744. [PubMed] [Article]

·  Morgan, M. J. & Baldassi, S. (1997)
How the human visual system encodes the orientation of a texture and why it makes mistakes
Current Biology, 7, 999-1012. [PubMed]

 

 

Selected PDF's, Pre-1997-8

·  Morgan, M & Watt, R. (1997) The Combination of Spatial Filters in Early Vision, Perception, 26,1073 [Manuscript]

·  Morgan, M, Adam, A & Mollon, J (1992) Dichromats detect colour-camouflaged objects that are not detected by trichromats, Proc. Roy. Soc Series B

·  Paakkonen, A. & Morgan,M (1994) Effects of motion on blur discrimination. JOSA

·  Paakkonen, A & Morgan, M (2001) Linear mechanisms can produce motion sharpening.Vision Res.

·  Watt, R& Morgan, M (1985) A theory of the primitive spatial code in human vision.Vision Res.1985, 25, 1661-74

Papers to Download

• Click on filenames to get copy of the paper
• Matlab .m file for the above
• Effects of attention on orientation acuity (PDF)
• The Poggendorff effect and second stage filtering (PDF)
• Dichromats detect colour-camouflaged objects
• Demo of Chubb & Morgan VR 1999 39 4217 stimulus
• synchrony
• It's not an illusion
• MIRAGE retrospective: Perception (1997)

Media

• Fruity Genes
• Bearable Likeness of Being
• Eyes Wide Apart
• Our Eyes can Play Tricks but it's no illusion
• Links to other articles

 

 

 

Teaching

·      FeatureAnalysis.pdf

 

General Interest

• The Rotating Wheel Phenomenon
• Quick Time Movie of rotating Wheel

 

Older Publications

2000

Solomon, J.A. & Morgan, M.J. (2000) Facilitation from collinear flanks is cancelled by non-collinear flanks Vision Research, 40, 279-286

Morgan, M.J. & Fahle, M. (2000). Motion-stereo mechanisms sensitive to interocular phase. Vision Research 40, 1667-1675.

Morgan, M.J. & Baldassi, S. (2000) Are there separate Fourier and non-Fourier mechanisms for orientation discrimination? Vision Research.40, 1751-1763

Morgan, M.J., Watamaniuk, SNJ & McKee, SP (2000) The use of an implicit standard for measuring discrimination thresholds. Vision Res., 40, 2341-2349

 

2001

 

Parkes, L., Lund, J., Angelluci, A., Solomon, J. and Morgan, M.J. (2001)  Compulsory averaging of crowded orientation signals in human vision.  Nature Neuroscience, 4, 739-744

Solomon, JA & Morgan, MJ (2001) Odd-men-out are poorly localised in brief exposures. Journal of Vision, 1, 9-17.

Marshman, W. E., Dawson, E., Neveu, M. M., Morgan, M. J., & Sloper, J. J. (2001). Increased binocular enhancement of contrast sensitivity and reduced stereoacuity in Duane syndrome. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 42(12), 2821-2825.

2002

Morgan, M. & Castet, E. 2002 High temporal frequency synchrony is insufficient for perceptual grouping. Proc R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 269, 513-6.

Nunn, J. A., Gregory, L. J., Brammer, M., Williams, S. C., Parslow, D. M., Morgan, M. J., Morris, R. G., Bullmore, E. T., Baron-Cohen, S., & Gray, J. A. (2002). Functional magnetic resonance imaging of synesthesia: activation of V4/V8 by spoken words. Nat Neurosci, 5(4), 371-375.

 

2003

Davis, A., Sloper, J., Neveu, M.M, Hogg, C.R, Morgan, M.J & Holderm G.E Electrophysiological and Psychophysical Differences between Early- and Late-Onset Strabismic Amblyopia  Invest. Ophthal. Vis. Sci., 44, 610-17

Morgan, M.J. (2003) Feature Analysis. In (M.A. Arbib, Ed) The Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks. MIT Press

2004

Solomon, JA, Felisberti, F. & Morgan, MJ (2004) Crowding and the tilt illusion: towards a unified account. JOV, in press. http://www.staff.city.ac.uk/~solomon/pubs/Distortions5_21.pdf

Vita and Full Publications List

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