Current Positions

Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for Mental Health Research at the Australian National University

Director of My Editing Co

Contributor to the Institute for the Future's X2 Project

Qualifications

Ph.D. School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Australia (2005).
The emergence of Mental Time Travel.

Bachelor of Science, (Honours Class I) University of Queensland, Australia (2000).
Introducing the prediction test into implicit learning theory.

Bachelor of Science, University of Queensland, Australia (1999).
Double major in psychology - also programming, artificial intelligence, evolution.

Research Interests

Developmental, neuropsychological and evolutionary perspectives on mental time travel. Planning for the future and understanding of time (in adults, children and clinical populations), perspective-taking. Ethical issues in the sciences, including scientific reporting. Insight. Epidemiology of mental health disorders. Statistical techniques in the social sciences. Changes in the Australian education system. Brief interventions for prevention of suicide and self-harm.

Publications

Busby Grant, J. & Suddendorf, T. (under review). Young children’s ability to use temporal markers to track changes in physical and mental states.

Busby Grant, J. & Suddendorf, T. (in press). Preschoolers differentiate the times of events from throughout the lifespan. European Journal of Developmental Psychology.

Halford, G. S. & Busby, J. (2007). Acquisition of structured knowledge without instruction: The relational schema induction paradigm. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 33, 586-603.

Busby, J. & Suddendorf, T. (2005). Recalling yesterday and predicting tomorrow. Cognitive Development, 20, 362-372.

Halford, G. S., Ford, M., Busby, J. & Andrews, G. (2005). Literature Review of Formal Models of Human Thinking. A report prepared under contract to Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC): Toronto.

Suddendorf, T. & Busby, J. (2005). Making decisions with the future in mind: Developmental and comparative identification of mental time travel. Learning and Motivation, 36, 110-125.

Suddendorf, T. & Busby, J. (2003). Like it or not? The mental time travel debate: Reply to Clayton et al., Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 7, 437-438.

Suddendorf, T. & Busby, J. (2003). Mental time travel in animals? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 7, 391-369.

Busby, J. & Suddendorf, T. (2003). The emergence of mental time travel: Two investigations of children’s temporal abilities. Poster presented at the XIth Conference on Developmental Psychology, Milan, Italy 27 - 31 August, 2003.

Busby, J. & Halford, G.S. (2003). Acquisition of artificial grammar: Schema induction versus implicit learning. Paper presented at the ICCS/ASCS Joint International Conference on Cognitive Science, Sydney, Australia 13 - 17 July 2003.

Busby, J. & Suddendorf, T. (2002). Progress and mental time travel: An evolutionary psychology approach. Paper presented at the Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Work in Progress Conference, Brisbane, Australia 4 - 6 October, 2002.