| Activity | Date of Birth: 01/08/1933
Place of Birth: Nelson, Lancashire, UK
University Qualifications and Professional Training:
BA Cantab, Natural Sciences Tripos, Part II, Psychology, 1957
PhD "Reading, Context and the Perception of Words", Reading University, 1961
Dept. of Scientific and Industrial Research (D.S.I.R.) studentship, Department of Psychology, Reading University 1957-1960
Professional Career:
Member of Scientific Staff, MRC Applied Psychology Unit, Cambridge, 1960-1982
Director, MRC Cognitive Development Unit, London, 1982-1998
Honorary member, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL, 1998-
Other positions (selected):
Research Fellow, Center for Research in Language and Language Behaviour, University of Michigan, Feb-March 1967
Research Associate and Lecturer, Deaprtment of Psychology, Yale University, 1967-1968
Visiting Scientist, Laboratoire de Psychologie, Paris & Unite de Researches Neuropsycholiques et Neurolinguistiques, Hospital St.Anne, Paris, 1974-1975
Consultant, Max Planck Gesellscahft, Project Group for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, 1977-1980
Visiting Professor, Cornell University, 1980
Awards:
Fellow BPS, 1974
BPS President's Award, 1988
Member, Academiae Europaeae, 1990
Honorary Fellow BPS, 1997
Order of the British Empire (OBE) HM Government, 1998
Honorary Fellow, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2000
Honorary Member, Experimental Society, 2001
Neuronal Plasticity Prize of La Fondation Ipsen, 2001
Fellow of the Royal Society, 2011
Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, 2011
Involvement with BPS and other institutions:
Committee Member, Section J., British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1972-1973
Member Editorial Board, "Cognition" 1972-1978
Member BPS Standing Press Committee 1972-1984; Chair 1984-1988
Committee Member, Experimental Psychology Society, 1973-1974
Associate Editor, "Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology", 1973-1977
Member BPS Conference Programme Committee, 1975-1979
Editorial Board, "Cognitive Psychology", 1976-1995
Associate Editor "Cognition", 1979-
Chair, BPS Standing Press Committee, 1984-1988
Member BPS Council, 1984-1990 & 1997-1998
Scientific Committee, NATO Advanced Research Workshop, 1992
Chair of BPS Working Party on Recovered Memories, 1995-1997
Member BPS Council, Investigatory Panel, 1996-
President, Experimental Psychology Society, 1998-2000
Member MRC committee on Gulf War Syndrome, 1996-1999
Member BPS Press Committee, 1999-2003.
Sources: J Morton's CV.
Compiled by Mike Maskill, BPS Archivist for the History of Psychology Centre. |
| PublishedWorks | Selected publications:
2009
Fava, L., Morton, J. (2009). Causal modeling of panic disorder theories. Clinical Psychology Review 29, 623-637 Author URL
2008
Blair, K. S., Finger, E., Marsh, A. A., Morton, J., Mondillo, K., Buzas, B., Goldman, D., Drevets, W. C., Blair, R. J. R. (2008). The role of 5-HTTLPR in choosing the lesser of two evils, the better of two goods: examining the impact of 5-HTTLPR genotype and tryptophan depletion in object choice. Psychopharmacology 196, 29-38 Author URL
2007
Blair, K. S., Smith, B. W., Mitchell, D. G., V, M., J, V., M Pessoa, L., Fridberg, D., Zametkin, A., Nelson, E. E., Drevets, W. C., Pine, D. S., Martin, A. B., R, J. R. (2007). Modulation of emotion by cognition and cognition by emotion. Neuroimage 35, 430-440 Author URL
2006
Blair, K. S., Leonard, A., Morton, J., Blair, R. J. R. (2006). Differential stimulus-reward and stimulus-punishment learning in individuals with psychopathy. Personality and Individual Differences 41, 155-165
Blair, K. S., Marsh, A. A., Morton, J., Vythilingam, M., Jones, M. M., K, P., D C, D., W C, B. R. J. (2006). Choosing the lesser of two evils, the better of two goods: Specifying the roles of ventromedial prefrontal cortex and dorsal anterior cingulate in object choice. Journal of Neuroscience 26(44), 11379-11386 Author URL
Blair, K. S., Morton, J., Leonard, A., Blair, R. J. R. (2006). Impaired decision-making on the basis of both reward and punishment information in individuals with psychopathy. Personality and Individual Differences 41(1), 155-165
Blair, K. S., Richell, R. A., Mitchell, D. G. V., Leonard, A., Morton, J., Blair, R. J. R. (2006). They know the words, but not the music: Affective and semantic priming in individuals with psychopathy. Biological Psychology 73(2), 114-123 Author URL
2005
Cappelletti, M., Morton, J., Kopelman, M., Butterworth, B. (2005). The progressive loss of numerical knowledge in a semantic dementia patient: a follow-up study. Cognitive Neuropsychology 22(7), pp.771-793
2004
Krol, N., Morton, J., De Bruyn, E. (2004). Theories of conduct disorder: a causal modelling analysis. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 45(4), pp.727-742
Morton, J. (2004). Understanding developmental disorders: a causal modeling approach. Oxford: Blackwell. Author URL
2002
Morton, J., Frith, U. (2002). Why we need cognition: cause and developmental. In Dupoux, E., Dehane, S., Cohen, L. (Eds.). Cognition: a critical look. Advances, questions and controversies ( pp.pp.263-278). Cambridge, USA: MIT Press.
2001
Bartrip, J., Morton, J., De Schonen, S. (2001). Responses to mother's face in 3-week to 5-month old infants. British Journal of Developmental Psychology 19(2), pp.219-232
Kopelman, M., Morton, J. (2001). Psychogenic amnesia - functional memory loss. In Davies, G., Dalgleish, T. (Eds.). Recovered Memories: Seeking the Middle Ground ( pp.pp.219-243). Chichester, UK: Wiley.
Morton, J., Frith, U. (2001). Why we need cognition: cause and developmental disorder. In Dupoux, E. (Ed.). Language, Brain and Cognitive Development: Essays in Honor of Jacques Mehler ( pp.263-278). Cambridge: MIT Press.
2000
Abeles, P., Morton, J. (2000). Keeping track: the function of the current state buffer. Cognition 75(3), 179-208 doi:10.1016/S0010-0277(00)00061-5.
Andrews, B., Brewin, C., Ochera, J., Morton, J., Bekerian, D., Davies, G., Mollon, P. (2000). The timing, triggers and qualities of recovered memories in therapy. British Journal of Clinical Psychology 39(1), pp.11-26 Author URL
Beaman, C., Morton, J. (2000). The effects of rime on auditory recency and the suffix effect. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology 12(2), pp.223-242 doi:10.1080/095414400382136.
Beaman, C., Morton, J. (2000). The separate but related origins of the recency effect and the modality effect in free recall. Cognition 77(3), B59-B65 doi:10.1016/S0010-0277(00)00107-4.
Morton, J. (2000). . The architecture of event memory. Adelaide: Causal.
1999
Abeles, P., Morton, J. (1999). Avoiding misinformation: reinstating target modality. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A: Human Experimental Psychology 52(3), 581-592 doi:10.1080/713755830.
Andrews, B., Brewin, C., Ochera, J., Morton, J., Bekerian, D., Davies, G., Mollon, P. (1999). Characteristics, context and consequences of memory recovery among adults in therapy. The British Journal of Psychiatry 175(2), pp.141-146 Author URL
Barreau, S., Morton, J. (1999). Pulling smarties out of a bag. A headed records analysis of children's recall of their own past beliefs. Cognition 73(1), 65-87
1998
Davies, G., Morton, J., Mollon, P., Robertson, N. (1998). Recovered memories in theory and practice. Psychology, Public Policy and Law 4(4), pp.1079-1090
Sims, K., Morton, J. (1998). Modelling the training effects of kinaesthetic acuity measurement in children. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 39(5), pp.731-746 doi:10.1111/1469-7610.00372.
Smith, C., Morton, J., Oakley, D. (1998). An investigation of the state dependency of recall during hypnotic amnesia. Contemporary Hypnosis 15(2), pp.94-100 doi:10.1002/ch.120.
Smith, C., Morton, J., Oakley, D. A. (1998). Hypnotic amnesia: Suggestions for episodic amnesia can attenuate the generation of primed responses during an implicit memory task. Contemporary Hypnosis. ( pp.252-253). |