Morgan, Professor Michael

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Professor Morgan is Head of the Perception and Psychophysics Section of the Applied Vision Research Centre at City University, which provides a focus for the development of multidisciplinary research projects with emphasis on both pure and applied aspects of vision research. He is also an honorary member of the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London. Professor Morgan studied Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge, specialising in Experimental Psychology during his final year. After a period as University Lecturer at Cambridge he occupied Chairs in Psychology at the Universities of Durham and UCL, and was Darwin Fellow at the University of Edinburgh for a while, before finally moving to City University. His main research interest is in Visual Perception, for reasons he explains in his recent book 'The Space Between Our Ears', (winner of the Wellcome Trust Prize for popular Science writing.?? The book is to be published as a paperback in July, by Oxford University Press. Professor Morgan?s experiments on visual perception have been published in high-profile journals such as 'Nature'. These experiments have mainly been concerned with the way in which the Visual Brain copes with the problem of perceiving moving objects, given the very slow response of its neural machinery. His earlier book 'Molyneux's Question' discussed philosophical theories about the representation of space, in both sighted and blind people. Outside of his work Professor Morgan?s main interests are in languages and Natural History.