Michael J. Beran, Ph.D.
Curriculum Vitae

Contact Me:  mjberan@yahoo.com
 

Last updated: 
April 21, 2013

Selected Recent and Upcoming Presentations (all available in CV)

Beran, M. J., (August, 2012). Prospecting for monkey prospective memory. Invited paper presented at the 120th annual meeting of the American Psychological Association meeting, Orlando, FL.

Beran, M. J., Smith, J. D., & Perdue, B. M. (August, 2012). Chimpanzees name when they know and look when they do not know. Paper presented at the 24th Congress of the International Primatological Society meeting, Cancun, Mexico.

Perdue, B. M., Evans, T. E., Bramlett, J. L., Menzel, C. R., & Beran, M. J. (August, 2012). Looking to the future: Prospective memory in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Paper presented at the 24th Congress of the International Primatological Society meeting, Cancun, Mexico.

Beran, M. J., (July, 2012). Comparative approaches to delay of gratification. Paper presented at the 30th International Congress of Psychology, Cape Town, South Africa.

Perdue, B. M., & Beran, M. J. (July, 2012). Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) know what they know. Paper presented at the 30th International Congress of Psychology, Cape Town, South Africa.

Beran, M. J. (March, 2012). What went where? Chimpanzees accurately judge concurrently accumulating quantities. Paper presented at the 104th annual meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Savannah, GA.

Beran, M. J., Coutinho, M., Church, B. J., & Smith, J. D. (March, 2012). Executive- attentional uncertainty responses by rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta). Paper presented at the 19th Annual International Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne Beach, FL.

Bramlett, J.., Evans, T. A., Perdue, B. M., Menzel, E., & Beran, M. J. (March, 2012). This too can pass: Capuchin monkeys let lesser rewards pass by to get better rewards. Poster presented at the 19th Annual International Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne Beach, FL.

Couchman, J. J., Boomer, J., Beran, M. J., & Smith, J. D. (March, 2012). Unsupervised learning and metacognition in rhesus monkeys using intuitive tasks. Paper presented at the 19th Annual International Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne Beach, FL.

Evans, T. A. & Beran, M. J. (March, 2012). Monkeys exhibit prospective memory in a computerized task. Paper presented at the 104th annual meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Savannah, GA.

Evans, T. A., Bramlett, J., Perdue, B. M., & Beran, M. J. (March, 2012). Prospective memory in a language-trained chimpanzee. Paper presented at the 19th Annual International Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne Beach, FL.

Heimbauer, L. A., Beran, M. J., & Owren, M. J. (March, 2012). A chimpanzee uses similar acoustic cues as humans when identifying sine-wave, noise-vocoded, and time-reversed speech. Poster presented at the 19th Annual International Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne Beach, FL.

Hoffman, M. L., Beran, M. J., & Williamson, R. A., & Washburn, D. A. (March, 2012). Did I do that?: Investigating agency and WWW memory in rhesus monkeys and children. Poster presented at the 19th Annual International Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne Beach, FL.

Parrish, A. E., Brosnan, S. F., & Beran, M. J. (Match, 2012). I’ll work for you, and you work for me: Oh wait, you might not matter. Poster presented at the 19th Annual International Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne Beach, FL.

Perdue, B. M., Evans, T. A., & Beran, M. J. (March, 2012). What's all the bias about? Learning effects contribute to cognitive bias in nonhuman primates. Paper presented at the 19th Annual International Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne Beach, FL.

Beran, M. J., Evans, T. A., Bramlett, J., McIntyre, J., Addessi, E., & Paglieri, F. (November 2011). A “hybrid” test of self-control in chimpanzees and capuchin monkeys. Paper presented at the 52nd annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Seattle, WA.

Boomer, J., Couchman, J. J., Beran, M. J., & Smith, J. D. (November, 2011). Dissociating performance and uncertainty monitoring from reinforcement in humans. Paper presented at the 52nd annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Seattle, WA.

Perdue, B. M., Talbot, C. F., Stone, A., & Beran, M. J. (November, 2011). Putting the elephant back in the herd: Elephant relative quantity judgments match those of other species. Paper presented at the Fall Meeting of the Comparative Cognition Meeting, Seattle, WA.

Beran, M. J., Evans, T. A.,& Owens, K. (May, 2011). Chimpanzees, monkeys, and humans show similar skill in estimating uncertain outcomes. Poster presented at the 23rd annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, Washington, DC.

Beran, M. J., McIntyre, J., Bramlett, J., & Evans, T. A. (March, 2011).  What counts for “counting”? Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) know what does or does not matter during quantity judgments.  Paper presented at the 18th Annual International Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne Beach, FL.  

Beran, M. J. (November, 2010). Quantity judgments of auditory stimuli by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Paper presented at the Fall Meeting of the Comparative Cognition Meeting, St Louis, MO.

Beran, M. J., & Smith, J. D. (November, 2010). Information seeking and the comparative study of metacognition. Paper presented at the 51st annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, St Louis, MO.

Beran, M. J. (June 2010). Long-term retention of lexigram meanings by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Invited paper presented in the Rumbaugh Symposium on Language and Learning at the 33rd Annual Meeting of the American Society of Primatologists, Louisville, KY.

Beran, M. J. (April, 2010). Chimpanzee serial list memory: False memories and isolation effects. Invited paper presented at the 102nd Annual Meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Atlanta, GA.

Beran, M. J., Klein, E. D., Evans, T. A., & Einstein, G. O. (June, 2010). Prospective memory and planning by rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) on a computerized task. Paper presented at the 33rd annual meeting of the American Society of Primatologists, Louisville, KY.

Evans, T. A., Beran, M. J., & Hoyle, D. (June, 2010). Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) delay gratification by accepting tokens in lieu of rewards. Paper presented at the 33rd annual meetings of the American Society of Primatologists, Louisville, KY.

Heimbauer, L. A., Conway, C. M., Christiansen, M. H., Beran, M. J., & Owren, M. O. (June, 2010). Grammar rule-based sequence learning by rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta). Paper presented at the 33rd annual meeting of the American Society of Primatologists, Louisville, KY.

Parrish, A. E., Beran, M. J., Wilson, B., & Brosnan, S. F. (June, 2010). Understanding economic decision making during coordination games in monkeys and apes. Poster presented at the 33rd annual meeting of the American Society of Primatologists, Louisville, KY.

Couchman, J. J., Coutinho, M. V. C., Beran, M. J., & Smith, J. D. (April, 2010). Beyond stimulus cues and reinforcement signals: A new approach to animal cognition. Paper presented 102nd Annual Meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Atlanta, GA. [Winner - SSPP Richard M. Griffith Memorial Award]

Evans, T. A., & Beran, M. J. (April, 2010). Who waits for more? Testing monkeys’ self- control in a computerized detour task. Paper presented 102nd Annual Meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Atlanta, GA.

Heimbauer, L. A., Beran, M. J., & Owren, M. J. (April, 2010). Rule-based sequence learning by rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta). Paper presented 102nd Annual Meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Atlanta, GA.

Klein, E. D., Evans, T. A., & Beran, M. J. (April, 2010). Investigating monkeys’ memory coding strategies using a computerized radial maze. Paper presented 102nd Annual Meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Atlanta, GA.

Beran, M. J., & Smith, J. D. (March, 2010). Knowing what to ask for: Monkeys seek information before matching-to-sample. Paper presented at the 17th Annual International Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne Beach, FL.

Evans, T. A., & Beran, M. J. (March, 2010). Will chimpanzees delay gratification by accepting tokens in lieu of rewards? Paper presented at the 17th Annual International Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne Beach, FL.

Flemming, T. M., & Beran, M. J. (March, 2010). Conceptual thresholds for same and different in old and new world monkeys. Poster presented at the 17th Annual International Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne Beach, FL.

Heimbauer, L. A., Beran, M. J., & Owren, M. J. (March, 2010). A chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) shows human-like speech perception abilities. Poster presented at the 17th Annual International Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne Beach, FL.

Klein, E. D., Beran, M. J., & Evans, T. A. (March, 2010). A bigger house or a shorter commute? The decoy effect and primate decision making. Paper presented at the 17th Annual International Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne Beach, FL.

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