Michael Morgan

Jul 24, 2025 Digital dentistry continues to transform restorative procedures, offering new possibilities for both clinicians and patients.

In memory of the six Duke alumni who perished in the attacks on New York and Washington, Duke planted a grove of six trees in Keohane Quadrangle. On Sept. 11, at 4:30 p.m., as occurs on each anniversary of the attack, members of the Duke community will lay a wreath to remember the six Duke alumni we lost on that day:

In 2006, I began walking the Azalea Trail on an almost daily basis. Recently I saw a posted notice that the trail would be closed for four days for maintenance.

Shouldn't we be encouraging people to use their green bins, rather than penalising them?

On December 11, 2025, the White House issued an executive order (EO) attempting to restrict state-level artificial intelligence (AI) laws. This EO...

Message from Montpelier is a recurring column written by Milton's legislative delegation. This update is from Rep. Michael Morgan (R-Milton).

Key decisions MIGRATION Application for judicial review of decision of Administrative Appeals Tribunal – non-revocation of visa

Message from Montpelier is a recurring column written by Milton's legislative delegation. This update is from Rep. Michael Morgan (R-Milton).

The human visual system must perform complex visuospatial extrapolations (VSE) across space and time in order to extract shape and form from the retinal projection of a cluttered visual environment characterized by occluded surfaces and moving objects. Even if we exclude the temporal dimension, for instance when judging whether an extended finger is pointing towards one object or another, the mechanisms of VSE remain opaque. Here we investigated the neural correlates of VSE using functional magnetic resonance imaging in sixteen human observers while they judged the relative position of, or saccaded to, a (virtual) target defined by the extrapolated path of a pointer. Using whole brain and region of interest (ROI) analyses, we compared the brain activity evoked by these VSE tasks to similar control judgements or eye movements made to explicit (dot) targets that did not require extrapolation. The data show that activity in an occipitotemporal region that included the lateral occipital cortex (LOC) was significantly greater during VSE than during control tasks. A similar, though less pronounced, pattern was also evident in regions of the fronto-parietal cortex that included the frontal eye fields. However, none of the ROIs examined exhibited a significant interaction between target type (extrapolated/explicit) and response type (oculomotor/perceptual). These findings are consistent with a close association between visuoperceptual and oculomotor responses, and highlight a critical role for the LOC in the process of VSE.

Dr. Jeremy Morgan of WM Dentistry opens applications June 1 for Smile Forward - a free, complete smile transformation for someone whose smile has held them back