Tyler Morgan

Tyler Morgan, PhD

Tyler Morgan has been an FMRIF Staff Scientist since October 2023. Trained as a neuroscientist and physicist, Tyler develops high spatial- and temporal-resolution functional imaging methods to measure human brain activity. Current interests include the development and validation of direct neuronal recordings using MRI (i.e. DIANA signals), development of fMRI sequences for hard-to-image regions of the brain, and studying multi-sensory integration in primary sensory areas and subcortex.

Before joining FMRIF, Tyler was a postdoctoral researcher in the Section on Functional Imaging Methods at NIMH from August 2020. Tyler completed a PhD in Neuroscience & Psychology under Prof. Lars Muckli at the University of Glasgow, which focused on predictive and contextual information channels in human brain and how cortical feedback interacts with feedforward sensory input to create coherent visual perception.

Contact

• Email: tyler.morgan@nih.gov
• Phone: (240) 926-7577
• Address: National Institute of Mental Health, Building 10, Room 1D73, 10 Center Drive, MSC 1148 Bethesda, MD 20892-1148, USA

Selected Publications

• J Bergmann, LS Petro, C Abbatecola, MS Li, AT Morgan, L Muckli (2024): Cortical depth profiles in primary visual cortex for illusory and imaginary experiences. Nat. Commun. 15, 1002. doi: 0.1038/s41467-024-45065-w
• P Papale, F Wang, AT Morgan, X Chen, A Gilhuis, LS Petro, L Muckli, PR Roelfsema, MW Self (2023): The representation of occluded image regions in area V1 of monkeys and humans. Curr. Biol. 33, 3865-3871. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.08.010.
• ID Driver, RM Sanchez Panchuelo, O Mougin, M Asghar, J Kolasinski, WT Clarke, C Rua, AT Morgan, A Carpenter, K Muir, D Porter, CT Rodgers, S Clare, RG Wise, R Bowtell, ST Francis (2021): Multi-centre, multi-vendor 7 Tesla fMRI reproducibility of hand digit representation in the human somatosensory cortex. bioRxiv. doi: 10.1101/2021.03.25.437006.
• AT Morgan, N Nothnagel, LS Petro, J Goense, L Muckli (2020): High-resolution line-scanning reveals distinct visual response properties across human cortical layers. bioRxiv. doi: 10.1101/2020.06.30.179762.
• WT Clarke, O Mougin, ID Driver, C Rua, AT Morgan, M Asghar, S Clare, S Francis, RG Wise, CT Rodgers, A Carpenter, K Muir, R Bowtell (2019): Multi-Site Harmonization of 7 Tesla MRI Neuroimaging Protocols. Neuroimage. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116335
• AT Morgan, LS Petro, L Muckli (2019): Scene representations conveyed by cortical feedback to early visual cortex can be described by line drawings. J Neurosci. 39(47): 9410-9423. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0852-19.2019