Michael J. Beran, Ph.D.
Curriculum Vitae

Contact Me:  mjberan@yahoo.com
 

Last updated: 
March 6, 2010

Selected Recent and Upcoming Presentations (all available in CV)

Beran, M. J. (August, 2009). Natural choice in chimpanzees: Sometimes less is preferred to more. Paper presented at the 117th Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, Toronto, Canada.

Beran, M. J. (July, 2009). Beyond uncertainty monitoring. Primate responses to incomplete information and temptation. Invited paper presented at the Metacognition and Mindreading Conference, Salzburg, Austria.

Beran, M. J., Klein, E. D., & Evans, T. A. (April, 2009). Prospects for prospective memory research with monkeys.  Invited paper presented at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Psychological Association, Albuquerque, NM.

Beran, M. J, Evans, T. A., & Ratliff, C. L. (April, 2009). Perceptual and temporal effects on natural choice in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Paper presented at the 101^st annual meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Savannah, GA.  

Evans, T. A., Beran, M. J., & Ratliff, C. L. (April, 2009). Perception of food amounts by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): The role of magnitude, contiguity, and wholeness. Paper presented at the 101^st annual meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Savannah, GA.

Flemming, T. M., Beran, M. J., Thompson, R. K. R., & Washburn, D. A. (April, 2009). Analogical reasoning and the differential outcome effect: Getting a conceptual feel.  Paper presented at the 101^st annual meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Savannah, GA.

Heimbauer, L. A., Conway, C. M., Christiansen, M. H., Beran, M. J., Owren, M. J. (April, 2009). Testing sequence learning in rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta). Paper presented at the 101^st annual meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Savannah, GA.

Hoffman, M. L., Beran, M. J., & Washburn, D. A. (April, 2009). Source monitoring in rhesus monkeys. Paper presented at the 101^st annual meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Savannah, GA.

Beran, M. J. (March, 2009). Judgments of continuous and discrete quantities by chimpanzees. Poster presented at the 16th annual international Conference on Comparative Cognition.

Beran, M. J. (February, 2009). Monkey mathematicians: Quantity comparisons by capuchins and macaques. Paper presented at the 54th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association, Charlotte, NC.

Beran, M. J. (November, 2008). Chimpanzees accurately judge concurrently accumulating sets of food items. Paper presented at the Comparative Cognition meeting, Chicago, IL.

Beran, M. J., Klein, E. D., & Evans, T. A. (November, 2008). Monkeys plan and remember future responses. Paper presented at the 49th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, IL.

Couchman, J. J., Coutinho, M. V. C., Beran, M. J., & Smith, J. D. (November, 2008). Task-general uncertainty responses by humans and rhesus monkeys absent associative/ reinforcement cues. Paper presented at the Comparative Cognition meeting, Chicago, IL.

Klein, E. D., Beran, M. J., Evans, T. A., & Schultz, N. A. (November, 2008). Primate decision making in the Monty Hall three-door problem. Paper presented at the 49th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, IL.

Beran, M. J. (October, 2008). The metacognitive monkey and the self-controlled chimpanzee. Invited presentation at the University of Memphis Institute for Intelligent Systems. Memphis, TN.

Beran, M. J. (October, 2008). Numerical competence in animals revisited. Invited presentation at the University of Memphis Cognitive Science Seminar. Memphis, TN.

Beran, M. J. (October, 2008). Primate mathematics: Enumeration, estimation, and calculation. Paper presented at the 14th biennial meeting of the Society for Comparative Psychology, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Flemming, T. M., & Beran, M. J. (October, 2008). Application of the analogical rule in nonhuman primates. Paper presented at the 14th biennial meeting of the Society for Comparative Psychology, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Beran, M. J. (August, 2008). Animal willpower? Studying delay of gratification in nonhuman primates. Paper presented at the 116th Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, Boston, MA.

Beran, M. J., Smith, J. D., & Proust, J. (May, 2008). Metacognition in nonhumans: Methodological and theoretical issues. Paper presented at the 3rd Biennial Meeting of the EARLI Special Interest Group: Metacognition. Ioannina, Greece.

Beran, M. J. (April, 2008).  Primate willpower.  Keynote address at the 16th Annual Southeast Missouri State University Student Research Conference, Cape Girardeau, MO.

Beran, M. J. (March, 2008). Chimpanzees as natural accountants.  Paper presented at the 54th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association, Charlotte, NC.

Beran, M. J. (March, 2008). Chimpanzees in a New Orleans bar: With drinks to compare, how would they fare? Paper presented at the 100th Annual Meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, New Orleans, LA.

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