John Sutton

Biographic Data

ID3713648
NAMEJohn Sutton
GIVEN NAMESJohn
FAMILY NAMESutton
SIGNATURESUTTON J
AFFILIATIONSMacquarie University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS40
TOTAL CITATIONS151
AUTHOR COUNT39
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1969
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX7

  • Rethinking psychological measurement: Validity potential versus realised validity

    Open AccessWendy C Higgins, David M Kaplan et al.ARTICLEStudies in History and Philosophy…2026References: 46

    We propose a concept of validity with a novel feature that we argue can facilitate improved measurement validation practices in the psychological sciences. Following Borsboom and colleagues, our concept of validity is measurement-specific and causal. This contrasts with current guidelines linking validity to the acceptability of both measurement and non-measurement-based interpretations of test scores. Benefits of a measurement-specific concept o…

  • Why robots can’t haka: Skilled performance and embodied knowledge in the Māori haka

    Open AccessMcArthur Mingon, Jeanna Sutton et al.ARTICLESynthese2021Cited by: 4References: 71

  • Personal Memory, the Scaffolded Mind, and Cognitive Change in the Neolithic

    Open AccessJeanna Sutton, John SuttonCHAPTERConsciousness, Creativity, and…2020

    ‘The Çatalhöyük evidence as a whole’, write Hodder and Pels, ‘gives many indications that, indeed, people began to link themselves to specific pasts, by burying pots, tools, humans and hunting trophies in ways that indicate particular memories rather than a generic reference to a group’ (2010, 182). Hodder draws on his multidisciplinary team’s impressive studies of a wide range of artifacts and practices – household symbols, pit-digging, burial, …

  • Collective mental time travel: Remembering the past and imagining the future together

    Open AccessKourken Michaelian, Jeanna Sutton et al.ARTICLESynthese2019Cited by: 4References: 96

  • The East African Coast

    Jeanna Sutton, John SuttonCHAPTERSwahili World2017

    The East African Coast - 1 - Researching its history and archaeology

  • Cognition in Skilled Action: Meshed Control and the Varieties of Skill Experience

    Open AccessWill Christensen, Wayne Christensen et al.ARTICLEMind & Language2016

    We present a synthetic theory of skilled action which proposes that cognitive processes make an important contribution to almost all skilled action, contrary to influential views that many skills are performed largely automatically. Cognitive control is focused on strategic aspects of performance, and plays a greater role as difficulty increases. We offer an analysis of various forms of skill experience and show that the theory provides a better …

  • Capabilities, Wealth, and Trade

    Jeanna Sutton, John Sutton et al.ARTICLEJournal of Political Economy2016Cited by: 4References: 5

    We explore the relation between a country's income and the mix of products it exports. Both are simultaneously determined by countries' capabilities, that is, by countries' productivity and quality levels for each good. Our theoretical setup has two features. (1) Some goods have fewer high-quality producers/countries than others, meaning that there is comparative advantage. (2) Imperfect competition allows high- and low-quality producers to coexi…

  • Cue generation and memory construction in direct and generative autobiographical memory retrieval

    Open AccessCelia B Harris, Akira R O’Connor et al.ARTICLEConsciousness and Cognition2015

  • Can teachers accurately predict student performance

    Open AccessKeith W Thiede, Jonathan L Brendefur et al.ARTICLETeaching and Teacher Education2015Cited by: 12References: 3

  • Yoga From the Mat Up: How words alight on bodies

    Doris Mcilwain, Jeanna Sutton et al.ARTICLEEducational Philosophy and Theory2013Cited by: 3References: 7

    Yoga is a unique form of expert movement that promotes an increasingly subtle interpenetration of thought and movement. The mindful nature of its practice, even at expert levels, challenges the idea that thought and mind are inevitably disruptive to absorbed coping. Building on parallel phenomenological and ethnographic studies of skilful performance and embodied apprenticeship, we argue for the importance in yoga of mental access to embodied mov…

  • To Think or Not To Think: The apparent paradox of expert skill in music performance

    Andrew Geeves, Doris Mcilwain et al.ARTICLEEducational Philosophy and Theory2013Cited by: 6References: 1

    Expert skill in music performance involves an apparent paradox. On stage, expert musicians are required accurately to retrieve information that has been encoded over hours of practice. Yet they must also remain open to the demands of the ever-changing situational contingencies with which they are faced during performance. To further explore this apparent paradox and the way in which it is negotiated by expert musicians, this article profiles theo…

  • Self-Representation and Perspectives in Dreams

    Open AccessM Rosen, Jeanna Sutton et al.ARTICLEPhilosophy Compass2013Cited by: 5References: 46

    Integrative and naturalistic philosophy of mind can both learn from and contribute to the contemporary cognitive sciences of dreaming. Two related phenomena concerning self-representation in dreams demonstrate the need to bring disparate fields together. In most dreams, the protagonist or dream self who experiences and actively participates in dream events is or represents the dreamer: but in an intriguing minority of cases, self-representation i…

  • Minds in and out of time: Memory, Embodied Skill, Anachronism, and Performance

    Evelyn B Tribble, Evelyn Tribble et al.ARTICLETextual Practice2012Cited by: 1

    Contemporary critical instincts, in early modern studies as elsewhere in literary theory, often dismiss invocations of mind and cognition as inevitably ahistorical, as performing a retrograde version of anachronism. Arguing that our experience of time is inherently anachronistic and polytemporal, we draw on the frameworks of distributed cognition and extended mind to theorize cognition as itself distributed, cultural, and temporal. Intelligent, e…

  • We Remember, We Forget: Collaborative Remembering in Older Couples

    Celia B Harris, P G Keil et al.ARTICLEDiscourse Processes2011Cited by: 11References: 39

    Transactive memory theory describes the processes by which benefits for memory can occur when remembering is shared in dyads or groups. In contrast, cognitive psychology experiments demonstrate that social influences on memory disrupt and inhibit individual recall. However, most research in cognitive psychology has focused on groups of strangers recalling relatively meaningless stimuli. This study examined social influences on memory in groups wi…

  • Applying Intelligence to the Reflexes: Embodied Skills and Habits between Dreyfus and Descartes

    Jeanna Sutton, John Sutton et al.ARTICLEJournal of the British Society…2011Cited by: 18References: 15

    (2011). Applying Intelligence to the Reflexes: Embodied Skills and Habits between Dreyfus and Descartes. Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology: Vol. 42, Habit, pp. 78-103

  • Kingdom of Ife: Sculptures from West Africa/Dynasty and divinity: Ife art in ancient Nigeria

    Jeanna Sutton, John SuttonARTICLEAzania Archaeological Research in…2011

  • The psychology of memory, extended cognition, and socially distributed remembering

    Open AccessJeanna Sutton, John Sutton et al.ARTICLEPhenomenology and the Cognitive…2010

  • Exograms and Interdisciplinarity: History, the Extended Mind, and the Civilizing Process

    Jeanna Sutton, John SuttonCHAPTERThe extended mind2010

    This chapter aims to describe two compatible but distinct movements or “waves” within the literature of the extended mind hypothesis (EM) and to defend and illustrate the interdisciplinary implications of EM as best understood by sketching two case studies. Derived from functionalist information-processing cognitive science, EM focused on the ability of man to connect with external symbols or what Merlin Donald refers to as “exograms.” Exograms e…

  • Material Agency, Skills and History: Distributed Cognition and the Archaeology of Memory

    Jeanna Sutton, John SuttonCHAPTERMaterial agency2008

  • Between Individual and Collective Memory: Coordination, Interaction, Distribution

    Jeanna Sutton, John SuttonARTICLESocial research2008Cited by: 5

    Human memory in the wild often involves multiple forms of remembering at once, as habitual, affective, personal, factual, shared, and institutional memories operate at once within and across individuals and small groups. The interdisciplinary study of the ways in which history animates dynamical systems at many different timescales requires a multidimensional framework in which to analyse a broad range of social memory phenomena. Certain features…

  • Sunk Costs and Market Structure: Price Competition, Advertising, and the Evolution of Concentration

    John SuttonBOOKSunk Costs and Market Structure2007Cited by: 27

  • Quality, Trade and the Moving Window: The Globalisation Process

    Open AccessJeanna Sutton, John SuttonARTICLEThe Economic Journal2007Cited by: 12References: 9

    The globalisation process is analysed in a model where firms differ in productivity and quality. A lower bound to quality emerges, below which firms cannot sell, however low their (local) wage rate. The range of quality levels between the maximum and this lower bound shifts upwards when trade is liberalised (the 'moving window'). The initial phase of globalisation, associated with trade liberalisation, in an initially segmented (but not autarkic)…

  • Distributed cognition: Domains and dimensions

    Jeanna Sutton, John SuttonARTICLEPragmatics & Cognition2006

    Synthesizing the domains of investigation highlighted in current research in distributed cognition and related fields, this paper offers an initial taxonomy of the overlapping types of resources which typically contribute to distributed or extended cognitive systems. It then outlines a number of key dimensions on which to analyse both the resulting integrated systems and the components which coalesce into more or less tightly coupled interaction …

  • Soul made flesh: The discovery of the brain—and how it changed the world

    Open AccessJeanna Sutton, John SuttonARTICLEJournal of the History of the…2006Cited by: 1

  • Representation, levels, and context in integrational linguistics and distributed cognition

    Open AccessJeanna Sutton, John SuttonARTICLELanguage Sciences2004Cited by: 9References: 25