Michael John Morgan
FRS (born 25 August 1942) is a professor at
City, University of London. His area of research is the experimental psychology of vision, from
neuroanatomy to
perception and
psychophysics
Psychophysics quantitatively investigates the relationship between physical stimuli and the sensations and perceptions they produce. Psychophysics has been described as "the scientific study of the relation between stimulus and sensation" or, m ...
. He was born in Cardiff, Wales, and was educated at
Cowbridge Grammar School
Cowbridge Grammar School was one of the best-known schools in Wales until its closure in 1974. It was replaced by Cowbridge Comprehensive School.
Founded in the 17th century by Sir John Stradling and refounded by Sir Leoline Jenkins, it had c ...
and Queens' College, Cambridge. He was elected a
Fellow of the Royal Society in 2005. He is married to the biologist
Linda Partridge FRS.
His 2001 book ''
The Space Between Our Ears
''The Space Between Our Ears: How the Brain Represents Visual Space'' is a 2001 non-fiction book by Michael J. Morgan, which explores the workings of vision.
Reception
''The Space Between Our Ears'' won the Wellcome Trust Book Prize for science ...
'' was the winner of the
Wellcome Trust Book Prize
Wellcome Book Prize (2009–2019 — paused) is an annual British literary award sponsored by Wellcome Trust. In keeping with the vision and goals of Wellcome Trust, the Book Prize "celebrates the topics of health and medicine in literature", inc ...
before the prize was discontinued (and re-inaugurated in 2009 as a prize for medical writing). He is also the author of "Molyneux's Question" (Cambridge University Press), a book about the philosophy and psychology of recovery from early blindness.
External links
City University Home Page, including download links to Journal ArticlesUCL Institute of Cognitive NeuroscienceGoogle Scholar CitationsMolyneux's Question
1942 births
Living people
Fellows of the Royal Society
Fellows of Queens' College, Cambridge
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