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.
Morton, J. (2017) Interidentity amnesia in dissociative identity disorder. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry. 22(4):315-330. doi: 0.1080/13546805.2017.1327848. Epub 2017 May 25.
Michael Kopelman & John Morton (2015) - Amnesia in an actor: learning and re-learning of play passages despite severe autobiographical amnesia. Cortex, 67, 1–14. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2015.03.001. Epub 2015 Mar 18.[1]
Fava, L. & Morton, J. (2009) Causal modeling of panic disorder theories. Clinical Psychology Review,29, 623–637.[2]
Krol, N., Morton, J. & De Bruyn, E. (2004). Theories of conduct disorder: a Causal Modelling analysis. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry,45, 727-742.[3]
Morton, J., & Frith, U. (1995). Causal Modelling: A Structural Approach to Developmental Psychopathology. In: Cicchetti, D. & Cohen, D.J. (Eds.), Manual of Developmental Psychopathology.Volume 1. New York:Wiley, 357–390.[4]
Ibbotson, N. & Morton, J. (1981). Rhythm and dominance. Cognition, 9, 125‑138.[5]
Morton, J. (1976). On recursive reference. Cognition, 4, 309.[6]
Garner, W.R. & Morton, J. (1969). Perceptual independence: Definitions, models and experimental paradigms. Psychological Bulletin, 72, 233‑259.[7]
Morton, J. (1968). Considerations of grammar and computation in language behaviour. In: Catford, J.C. (Ed). Studies in Language and Language Behaviour, CRLLB Progress Report No. VI, University of Michigan, 499‑545.[8]
