Professor Michael Morgan

Professor of Visual Psychophysics: Leader Visual Perception and Psychophysics stream

Morgan

0207 040 0183

m.morgan@city.ac.uk

 

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Academic and Professional Qualifications / Membership

1964 BA (Natural Sciences) University of Cambridge
1969 PhD University of Cambridge
1994 ScD University of Cambridge
2005 Fellow of the Royal Society

Brief outline of Career History

University of Cambridge: Assistant in Research (1965 1971)
Fellow & Tutor, Queens' College (1967 1974),
Lecturer, University of Cambridge ('71 78)
Professor of Psychology and Head of Department, University of Durham (1978 1981); 
Professor of Psychology, University College London ('81 '89)
Professorial Fellow, University of Edinburgh (1989-1993)
Professor  of Visual Psychophysics, Institute of Ophthalmology and Department of Anatomy/Developmental Biology, University College London (1993-2000).
Professor of Visual Psychophysics, City University (2000-)

Administrative responsibilities

  • RAE Co-ordinator
  • Head of Perception and Psychophysics Research Group

Professional Activities outside the University

  • Editorial Boards of Perception, Journal of Vision and J. Theor. Biol.
  • Honorary Member, Institute of Neuroscience, UCL
  • Wellcome Trust Grants Committee (Neuroscience)
  • Royal Society University Fellowships Committee

Research Interests

Visual Neuroscience; Visual Psychophysics; Experimental Psychology

Details of recent publications

  • Solomon, JA, Felisberti, F. & Morgan, MJ (2004) Crowding and the tilt illusion: Towards a unified account. Journal of Vision,4,500-508
  • Felesberti, F, Solomon, JA & Morgan, M.J. (2005) The role of salience in preventing crowding. Perception 34,823-833
  • Solomon, JA, Chubb, C & Morgan, MJ (2005)  Stimulus contrast and the Reichardt detector. Vision Research, 45, 2109-2117