2026
(in press). Wendy C. Higgins, Alexander J. Gillett, David M. Kaplan, John Sutton, & Robert C. Ross. Rethinking psychological measurement: validity potential versus realised validity. Special issue ofStudies in History and Philosophy of Science on measurement in psychology.
Pablo Fernandez Velasco & John Sutton. Collective place memory: remembering together in place-people ecosystems. Current Opinion in Psychology.
2025
Sara Kim Hjortborg, Greg Downey, and John Sutton. Coach-athlete interaction in Muay Thai: a microethnographic examination of skill learning in a real-world combat sport. Journal of Sports Sciences.
2024
Nikola Andonovski, John Sutton, & Christopher J. McCarroll. Eliminating episodic memory? Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. Special issue on ‘Elements of Episodic Memory: lessons from 40 years of research’, edited by Gema Martin-Ordas and Alex Easton.
Alexander Easton, Aidan J. Horner, Simon J. James, Jeremy Kendal, John Sutton, & James A. Ainge. Context in memory is reconstructed, not encoded. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews.
John Sutton. Situated affects and place memory. Topoi 43 (3), 593-606. DOI: 10.1007/s11245-024-10053-8. Special issue on affectivity and technology eds Heersmink, Piredda, Fasoli.
2023
Johannes Mahr, Penny van Bergen, John Sutton, Daniel L. Schacter, & Cecilia Heyes. Mnemicity: a cognitive gadget? Perspectives on Psychological Science 18 (5), 1160-1177. DOI: 10.1177/17456916221141.
2022
Celia B. Harris, John Sutton, Paul G. Keil, Nina McIlwain, Sophia A. Harris, Amanda J. Barnier, Greg Savage, & Roger A. Dixon. Ageing together: interdependence in the memory compensation strategies of long-married older couples. Frontiers in Psychology 13:854051. DOI: 0.3389/fpsyg.2022.854051.
John Sutton. Preserving without conserving: memoryscopes and historically burdened heritage. Adaptive Behavior 30 (6), 555-559. DOI 10.1177/10597123211000833.
2021
McArthur Henare Mingon and John Sutton. Why robots can’t haka: skilled performance and embodied knowledge in the Maori haka. Synthese 199 (1/2), 4337-4365. Special issue, Minds in Skilled Performance.
Cassandra L. Crone, Lillian M. Rigoli, Gaurav Patil, Sarah Pini, John Sutton, Rachel W. Kallen, & Michael J. Richardson. Synchronous vs non-synchronous imitation: using dance to explore interpersonal coordination during observational learning. Human Movement Science 102776.
2020
Andrew Geeves, Samuel Jones, Jane W. Davidson, and John Sutton. Between the crowd and the band: Performance experience, creative practice, and wellbeing for professional touring musicians. International Journal of Wellbeing 10 (5), 5-26.
Richard Heersmink and John Sutton. Cognition and the web: extended, transactive, or scaffolded? Erkenntnis 85 (1), 139-164.
Amanda Selwood, Celia B. Harris, Amanda J. Barnier, and John Sutton. Effects of collaboration on the qualities of autobiographical recall in strangers, friends, and siblings: both remembering partner and communication processes matter. Memory 28 (3), 399-416.
Misia Temler, Amanda J. Barnier, John Sutton, and Doris J.F. McIlwain. Contamination or natural variation? A comparison of contradictions from suggested contagion and intrinsic variability in repeated autobiographical accounts. JARMAC: Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition 9 (1), 108-117.
2019
Amee Baird, Celia B. Harris, Sophia A. Harris, John Sutton, Laurie A. Miller, & Amanda J. Barnier. Does collaboration with an intimate partner support memory performance? An exploratory case series of people with epilepsy or acquired brain injury. Neurorehabilitation 45 (3), 385-400.
Wayne Christensen, John Sutton, and Kath Bicknell. Memory systems and the control of skilled action. Philosophical Psychology 32 (5), 693-719.
Celia B. Harris, Amanda J. Barnier, John Sutton, and Greg Savage. Features of successful and unsuccessful collaborative memory conversations in long-married couples. Topics in Cognitive Science 11 (4), 668-686.
Kourken Michaelian and John Sutton. Collective mental time travel: remembering the past and imagining the future together. Synthese 196 (12), 4933-4960.
2018
Aline Cordonnier, Amanda J. Barnier, and John Sutton. Phenomenology in autobiographical thinking: underlying features of prospection and retrospection. Psychology of Consciousness: theory, research, and practice 5 (3), 295-311.
Chris Hewitson, David M. Kaplan, and John Sutton. Yesterday the earwig, today man, tomorrow the earwig? Comparative Cognition and Behavior Reviews 13, 25-30.
Karen Pearlman, John MacKay, & John Sutton. Creative editing: Svilova and Vertov’s distributed cognition. Apparatus: film, media, and digital cultures in Central and Eastern Europe, 6.
2017
Celia B. Harris, Amanda J. Barnier, John Sutton, and Tasneem Khan. Social contagion of autobiographical memories. JARMAC – Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition 6 (3), 319-327.
Celia B. Harris, Amanda J. Barnier, John Sutton, Paul G. Keil, and Roger A. Dixon. Going episodic: collaborative inhibition and facilitation when long-married couples remember together. Memory 25 (8), 1148-1159.
2016
Wayne Christensen, John Sutton, and Doris J.F. McIlwain. Cognition in skilled action: meshed control and the varieties of skill experience. Mind & Language 31 (1), 37-66. To be reprinted with a new introduction in Massimiliano L. Cappuccio (Ed.), The MIT Handbook of Embodied Cognition and Sport Psychology. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, forthcoming late 2017.
Andrew Geeves, Doris J.F. McIlwain, and John Sutton. Seeing yellow: ‘connection’ and routine in professional musicians’ experience of music performance. Psychology of Music 44 (2), 183-201.
Aline Cordonnier, Amanda J. Barnier, and John Sutton. Scripts and information units in future planning: interactions between a past and a future planning task. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 69 (2), 324-338.
Sarah Pini, Doris J.F. McIlwain, and John Sutton. Re-tracing the encounter: interkinaesthetic forms of knowledge in Contact Improvisation. Antropologia e Teatro 7, 225-243.
2015
Wayne Christensen, John Sutton, and Doris J.F. McIlwain. Putting pressure on theories of choking: towards an expanded perspective on breakdown in skilled performance. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 14 (2), 253-293.
Wayne Christensen, Kath Bicknell, Doris J.F. McIlwain, and John Sutton. The sense of agency and its role in strategic control for expert mountain bikers. Psychology of Consciousness: theory, research, and practice 2 (3), 340-353.
Celia B. Harris, Akira O’Connor, & John Sutton. Cue generation and memory construction in direct and generative autobiographical memory retrieval. Consciousness & Cognition 33, 204-215.
Lucas M. Bietti and John Sutton. Interacting to remember at multiple timescales: coordination, collaboration, cooperation and culture in joint remembering. Interaction Studies 16 (3), 419-450.
2014
Celia B. Harris, Amanda J. Barnier, John Sutton, and Paul G. Keil. Couples as socially distributed cognitive systems: remembering in everyday social and material contexts. Memory Studies 7 (3), 285-297.
Andrew Geeves, Doris J.F. McIlwain, John Sutton, and Wayne Christensen. To think or not to think: the apparent paradox of expert skill in music performance. Educational Philosophy and Theory 46 (6), 674-691. Reprinted in David Simpson & David Beckett (Eds.), Expertise, Pedagogy and Practice (pp. 111-128). London: Routledge, 2016.
Doris J.F. McIlwain and John Sutton. Yoga from the mat up: how words alight on bodies. Educational Philosophy and Theory 46 (6), 655-673. Reprinted in David Simpson & David Beckett (Eds.), Expertise, Pedagogy and Practice (pp. 92-110). London: Routledge, 2016.
Andrew Geeves, Doris J.F. McIlwain, and John Sutton. The performative pleasure of imprecision: a diachronic study of entrainment in music performance. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 8 (863) October (15 pages).
Andrew Geeves and John Sutton. Embodied cognition, perception, and performance in music. Empirical Musicology Review 9 (3/4), 247-253.
Lincoln J. Colling, William F. Thompson, and John Sutton. The effect of movement kinematics on predicting the timing of observed actions. Experimental Brain Research 232 (4), 1193-1206.
2013
John Sutton. Skill and collaboration in the evolution of human cognition. Biological Theory 8 (1), 28-36.
Kourken Michaelian and John Sutton. Distributed cognition and memory research: history and current directions. Review of Philosophy and Psychology 4 (1), 1-24.
Melanie Rosen and John Sutton. Self-representation and perspectives in dreams. Philosophy Compass 8 (11), 1041-1053 (video abstract).
Celia B. Harris, Amanda J. Barnier, and John Sutton. Shared encoding and the costs and benefits of collaborative recall. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 39 (1), 183-195.
Charles B. Stone, Amanda J. Barnier, John Sutton, and William Hirst. Forgetting our personal past: socially-shared retrieval-induced forgetting of autobiographical memories. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 42 (4), 1084-1099.
2012
Celia B. Harris, Amanda J. Barnier, and John Sutton. Consensus collaboration enhances group and individual recall accuracy. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 65 (1), 179-194.
John Sutton. Memory before the game: switching perspectives in imagining and remembering sport and movement. Journal of Mental Imagery 36 (1/2), 85-95.
Evelyn B. Tribble and John Sutton. Minds in and out of time: memory, embodied skill, anachronism, and performance. Textual Practice 26 (4), 587-607.
John Sutton and Evelyn B. Tribble. Materialists are not merchants of vanishing. Early Modern Culture: an electronic seminar 9 (online journal).
2011
John Sutton, Doris J.F. McIlwain, Wayne Christensen, and Andrew Geeves. Applying intelligence to the reflexes: embodied skills and habits between Dreyfus and Descartes. JBSP: Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 42 (1), 78-103.
John Sutton. Time, experience, and Descriptive Experience Sampling. Journal of Consciousness Studies 18 (1), 118-129.
Celia B. Harris, Paul G. Keil, John Sutton, Amanda J. Barnier, and Doris J.F. McIlwain. We remember, we forget: collaborative remembering in older couples. Discourse Processes 48 (4), 267-303.
Evelyn B. Tribble and John Sutton. Cognitive ecology as a framework for Shakespearean studies. Shakespeare Studies 39, 94-103.
2010
John Sutton. Observer perspective and acentred memory: some puzzles about point of view in personal memory. Philosophical Studies 148 (1), 27-37.
Max Coltheart, Peter Menzies, and John Sutton. Abductive inference and delusional belief. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry 15 (1), 261-287.
John Sutton, Celia B. Harris, Paul G. Keil, & Amanda J. Barnier. The psychology of memory, extended cognition, and socially distributed remembering. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 9 (4), 521-560.
Celia B. Harris, Amanda J. Barnier, John Sutton, and Paul G. Keil. ‘How did you feel when the Crocodile Hunter died?’: voicing and silencing in conversation influences memory for an autobiographical event. Memory 18 (2), 185-197.
Charles B. Stone, Amanda J. Barnier, John Sutton and William Hirst. Building consensus about the past: schema-consistency and convergence in socially-shared retrieval-induced forgetting. Memory 18 (2), 170-184.
2009
John Sutton and Carl Windhorst. Extended and constructive remembering: two notes on Martin and Deutscher. Crossroads: an interdisciplinary journal for the study of history, philosophy, religion, and classics 4 (1) [special issue on Max Deutscher’s work], 79-91.
2008
John Sutton. Between individual and collective memory: coordination, interaction, distribution. Social Research 75 (1), 23-48.
Amanda J. Barnier, John Sutton, Celia B. Harris, and Robert A. Wilson. A conceptual and empirical framework for the social distribution of cognition: the case of memory. Cognitive Systems Research 9 (1), 33-51.
2007
John Sutton. Batting, habit, and memory: the embodied mind and the nature of skill. Sport in Society 10, 763-786. Reprinted in Robert Dale, Denis Burnham, & Catherine Stevens (Eds.), Human Communication Science: a compendium (pp. 473-495). Sydney: ARC Research Network in Human Communication Science, 2011.
2006
John Sutton. Distributed cognition: domains and dimensions. Pragmatics and Cognition, 14, 235-247. Reprinted in I. Dror & S. Harnad (Eds.), Cognition Distributed: how cognitive technology extends our minds (pp.45-56). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2008.
2004
John Sutton. Representation, levels, and context in integrational linguistics and distributed cognition. Language Sciences, 26, 503-524.
2002
John Sutton. Cognitive conceptions of language and the development of autobiographical memory. Language and Communication 22, 375-390.
1990
John Sutton. Where Was Thought?: notes towards a genealogy of mind. Hermes 1990 (University of Sydney student union), 99-109.
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