Mark Johnson is a British cognitive neuroscientist who since 1997 is head of the Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development at Birkbeck College, London.

In 1996, Johnson co-authored (with Jeffrey Elman, Annette Karmiloff-Smith, Elizabeth Bates, Domenico Parisi, and Kim Plunkett), the book Rethinking Innateness . This influential book has received more than 1,000 citationshttp://info.scopus.com/etc/citationtracker/, and has been nominated for the “One hundred most influential works in cognitive science from the 20th Century” (Minnesota Millennium Project)http://www.cogsci.umn.edu/OLD/calendar/past_events/millennium/lista.html.