John Morton (cognitive scientist)
English cognitive scientist (born 1933)
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Research
Morton's research focuses on event memory in adults and children; effects of memory on recall of events; types of memory system; memory pathologies; multiple personality disorder; cognitive models of memory; development of cognitive abilities; and causal models of developmental disorders, particularly autism and dyslexia.
One of his most important theories is the logogen model of word recognition. Morton has also worked, with Mark H. Johnson, on face recognition in infants.
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Organisational affiliations
Morton is a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Honours and awards
- 1988 British Psychological Society President's Award.
- 1990 Member, Academiae Europaeae
- 1997 Honorary Fellow, British Psychological Society
- 1998 OBE
- 2000 Honorary Fellow, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience
- 2001 Honorary Member, Experimental Psychology Society
- 2001 Neuronal Plasticity Prize of /La Fondation Ipsen
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