John Morton (scientist)
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John Morton OBE, FRS was the director of the now defunct Medical Research Council
Cognitive Development Unit at University College London
. He is at present a professor at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience.
His contributions are wide ranging from memory
and its development in adults and children, multiple personality disorder
, to causal models of developmental disorders, particularly autism
and dyslexia
.
One of his most important theories was the logogen model
of word recognition.
Medical Research Council (UK)
The Medical Research Council is a publicly-funded agency responsible for co-ordinating and funding medical research in the United Kingdom. It is one of seven Research Councils in the UK and is answerable to, although politically independent from, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills...
Cognitive Development Unit at University College London
University College London
University College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and the oldest and largest constituent college of the federal University of London...
. He is at present a professor at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience.
His contributions are wide ranging from memory
Memory
In psychology, memory is an organism's ability to store, retain, and recall information and experiences. Traditional studies of memory began in the fields of philosophy, including techniques of artificially enhancing memory....
and its development in adults and children, multiple personality disorder
Dissociative identity disorder
Dissociative identity disorder is a psychiatric diagnosis and describes a condition in which a person displays multiple distinct identities , each with its own pattern of perceiving and interacting with the environment....
, to causal models of developmental disorders, particularly autism
Autism
Autism is a disorder of neural development characterized by impaired social interaction and communication, and by restricted and repetitive behavior. These signs all begin before a child is three years old. Autism affects information processing in the brain by altering how nerve cells and their...
and dyslexia
Dyslexia
Dyslexia is a very broad term defining a learning disability that impairs a person's fluency or comprehension accuracy in being able to read, and which can manifest itself as a difficulty with phonological awareness, phonological decoding, orthographic coding, auditory short-term memory, or rapid...
.
One of his most important theories was the logogen model
Logogen model
The logogen model of 1969 is a model of speech recognition that uses units called logogens to explain how humans comprehend spoken or written words. Logogens are a vast number of specialized recognition units, each able to recognize one specific word...
of word recognition.