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Selected Publications
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The links below provide abstracts for the articles, or in some cases the full
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Beran, M. J.
(2010). Use of exclusion by a chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) during speech
perception and auditory-visual matching-to-sample. Behavioural Processes, 83,
287-291.
Harris, E. H.,
Gulledge, J. P., Beran, M. J., & Washburn, D. A. (2010). What do Arabic numerals
mean to macaques? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior
Processes, 36, 66-76.
Smith, J. D.,
Beran, M. J., Crossley, M., Boomer, J., & Ashby, F. G. (2010). Implicit and
explicit category learning by macaques (Macaca mulatta) and humans (Homo
sapiens). Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes,
36, 54-65.
Smith, J. D.,
Redford, J. S., Beran, M. J., & Washburn, D. A. (2010). Rhesus monkeys (Macaca
mulatta) adaptively monitor uncertainty while multi-tasking. Animal
Cognition, 13, 93-101.
Beran, M. J. (2009). Chimpanzees as natural accountants. Human Evolution,
24,
183-196.
Beran, M. J., & Evans, T. A.
(2009). Delay of
gratification by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in working and waiting
situations. Behavioural Processes, 80, 117-121.
Beran, M. J., Evans, T. A., & Harris,
E. H. (2009). When in doubt, chimpanzees rely on estimates of past reward
amounts. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 276, 309-314.
Beran, M. J., Evans, T. A., & Ratliff, C. L. (2009). Perception of food amounts by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): The
role of magnitude, contiguity, and wholeness. Journal of Experimental
Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 35, 516-524.
Beran, M. J., Ratliff, C. L., & Evans, T. A. (2009). Natural choice in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): Perceptual and
temporal effects on selective value. Learning and Motivation, 40, 186-196.
Beran, M. J., Smith, J. D., Coutinho,
M. V. C., Couchman, J. J., & Boomer, J. (2009). The psychological
organization of “uncertainty” responses and “middle” responses: A dissociation
in capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella). Journal of Experimental
Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 35, 371-381.
Brosnan, S. F., & Beran, M. J. (2009). Trade between conspecifics in chimpanzees
(Pan troglodytes). Journal of Comparative Psychology, 123,
181-194.
Evans, T.
A. , Beran, M. J., Harris, E. H., & Rice, D. (2009). Quantity judgments of
sequentially presented food items by capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella).
Animal Cognition, 12, 97-105.
Hoffman,
M. L., Beran, M. J., & Washburn, D. A. (2009). Memory for 'what,' 'where,'
and 'when' information in rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta). Journal of
Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 35, 143-152.
Smith, J. D., Beran, M. J., Couchman, J. J., Coutinho, M. V. C., & Boomer, J.
(2009). Animal metacognition: Problems and prospects. Comparative Cognition and
Behavior Reviews, 4, 33-46.
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to link directly to the special issue on Animal Metacognition.
Beran, M. J. (2008). Monkeys (Macaca mulatta and Cebus apella)
track, enumerate, and compare multiple sets of moving items. Journal of
Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 34, 63-74.
Beran, M. J. (2008). Capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella) succeed in a
test of quantity conservation. Animal Cognition, 11, 109-116.
Beran, M. J. (2008). The
evolutionary and developmental foundations of mathematics. PLoS
Biology, 6, e19.
Beran, M. J., Evans, T. A., & Harris, E. H. (2008). Perception of food
amount by chimpanzees based on the number, size, contour length, and visibility
of items. Animal Behaviour, 75, 1793-1802.
Beran, M. J., Evans, T. A., Leighty, K. A.,
Harris, E. H., & Rice, D. (2008). Summation and
quantity judgments of sequentially presented sets by capuchin monkeys (Cebus
apella). American Journal of Primatology, 70, 191-194.
Beran, M. J., Harris, E. H., Evans, T. A.,
Klein, E. D., Chan, B., Flemming, T. M., & Washburn, D. A. (2008). Ordinal
judgments of symbolic stimuli by capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella) and
rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta): The effects of differential and
nondifferential reward. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 122,
52-61.
Beran, M. J., Johnson-Pynn, J.
S., & Ready, C. (2008). Quantity representation
in pre-school children and rhesus monkeys: Linear versus logarithmic scales.
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 100, 225-233.
Beran, M. J., Klein, E. D., Evans, T. A., Chan, B., Flemming,
T. M., Harris, E. H., Washburn, D. A., & Rumbaugh, D. M. (2008).
Discrimination reversal learning in capuchin
monkeys (Cebus apella). Psychological Record, 58, 3-14.
Brosnan,
S. F., Grady, M. F., Lambeth, S. P., Schapiro, S. J., & Beran, M. J. (2008). Chimpanzee autarky. PloS ONE, 3, e1518.
Evans, T. A., Beran, M. J., Chan, B., Klein, E. D., & Menzel, C. R. (2008).
An efficient computerized testing method for the capuchin monkey (Cebus
apella): Adaptation of the LRC-CTS to a socially housed nonhuman primate
species. Behavior Research Methods, 40, 590-596.
Flemming, T. M., Beran, M. J., Thompson, R. K. R., Kleider, H. M., & Washburn,
D. A. (2008). What meaning means for same and different: Analogical
reasoning in humans (Homo sapiens), chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), and rhesus
monkeys (Macaca mulatta). Journal of Comparative Psychology, 122, 176-185.
Smith, J. D., Beran, M. J., Couchman, J. J.,
& Coutinho, M. V. C. (2008). The
comparative study of metacognition: Sharper paradigms, safer inferences.
Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 15, 679-691.
Beran, M. J. (2007). Rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) enumerate
large and small sequentially presented sets of items using analog numerical representations.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 33, 42-54.
Beran, M. J. (2007). Rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) succeed on a
computerized test designed to assess conservation of discrete quantity.
Animal Cognition, 10, 37-45.
Beran, M. J., Rumbaugh, D. M., & Washburn, D. A. (2007). Rhesus monkeys (Macaca
mulatta) maintain learning set despite second-order stimulus-response
spatial discontiguity. Psychological Record, 57, 9-22.
Beran, M. J., Washburn, D. A.,
& Rumbaugh, D. M. (2007). The Stroop Effect in color-naming of color-word
lexigrams by a chimpanzee. Journal of General Psychology, 134, 217-228.
Evans, T. A., & Beran, M. J. (2007). Chimpanzees
use self-distraction to cope with impulsivity. Biology Letters, 3,
599-602.
Evans, T. A., & Beran, M. J. (2007). Delay of gratification and delay
maintenance by rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta). Journal of General
Psychology, 134, 199-216.
Flemming, T. M., Beran, M. J., & Washburn, D. A. (2007). Disconnect in concept
learning by rhesus monkeys: Judgment of relations and
relations-between-relations. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal
Behavior Processes, 33, 55-63.
Harris, E. H., Beran, M. J., & Washburn, D. A. (2007). Ordinal list integration
for symbolic, arbitrary, and analog stimuli by rhesus macaques (Macaca
mulatta). Journal of General Psychology, 134, 183-197.
Harris, E. H., Washburn, D. A., Beran, M. J., & Sevcik, R. A. (2007). Rhesus
monkeys (Macaca mulatta) select Arabic numerals or visible quantities
corresponding to a number of sequentially completed maze trials. Learning and
Behavior, 35, 53-59.
Beran, M. J. (2006).
Quantity perception by adult humans (Homo
sapiens),
chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), and rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta)
as a function of stimulus organization. International Journal of Comparative
Psychology, 19, 386-397.
Beran, M. J., & Evans, T. A. (2006). Maintenance of delay of gratification by
four chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): The effects of delayed reward
visibility, experimenter presence, and extended delay intervals. Behavioural
Processes, 73, 315-324.
Beran, M. J., Smith, J. D., Redford, J. S., & Washburn, D. A. (2006). Rhesus
macaques (Macaca mulatta) monitor uncertainty during numerosity
judgments. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 32,
111-119.
Beran,
M. J., Taglialatela, L. B.,
Flemming, T. M., James, F. M., & Washburn, D. A. (2006).
Nonverbal estimation during numerosity judgments by adult
humans. Quarterly Journal of Experimental
Psychology, 59, 2065-2082.
Hoffman, M. L., & Beran, M. J. (2006). Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)
remember the location of a hidden food item after altering their orientation to
a spatial array. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 120, 389-393.
Smith, J. D., Beran, M. J., Redford, J. S., & Washburn, D. A. (2006).
Dissociating uncertainty states and reinforcement signals in the comparative
study of metacognition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 135,
282-297.
Beran, M. J., Beran, M. M., Harris, E. H., & Washburn, D. A. (2005). Ordinal
judgments and summation of nonvisible sets of food items by two chimpanzees (Pan
troglodytes) and a rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta). Journal of
Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 31, 351-362.
Beran, M. J., Beran, M. M., & Menzel, C. R. (2005). Chimpanzees (Pan
troglodytes) use markers to monitor the movement of a hidden food item.
Primates, 46, 255-259.
Beran, M. J., Beran, M. M., & Menzel, C. R. (2005). Spatial memory and
monitoring of hidden items through spatial displacements by chimpanzees (Pan
troglodytes). Journal of Comparative Psychology, 119, 14-22.
Beran, M. J. (2004). Long-term retention of the differential values of Arabic
numerals by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Animal Cognition, 7,
86-92.
Beran, M. J. (2004). Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) respond to nonvisible
sets after one-by-one addition and removal of items. Journal of Comparative
Psychology, 118, 25-36.
Beran, M. J., & Beran, M. M. (2004). Chimpanzees remember the results of
one-by-one addition of food items to sets over extended time periods.
Psychological Science, 15, 94-99.
Beran, M. J., Pate, J. L., Washburn, D. A., & Rumbaugh, D. M. (2004). Sequential
responding and planning in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and rhesus
macaques (Macaca mulatta). Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal
Behavior Processes, 30, 203-212.
Beran, M. J., & Washburn, D. A. (2002). Chimpanzee responding during matching to
sample: Control by exclusion. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of
Behavior, 78, 497-508.
Beran, M. J. (2002). Maintenance of self-imposed delay of gratification by four
chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and an orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus).
Journal of General Psychology, 129, 49-66.
Beran, M. J. (2001). Summation and numerousness judgments of sequentially
presented sets of items by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Journal of
Comparative Psychology, 155, 181-191.
Beran, M. J. (2001). Do chimpanzees have expectations about reward presentation
following correct performance on computerized cognitive testing?
Psychological Record, 51, 173-183.
Beran, M. J., & Rumbaugh, D. M (2001). "Constructive" enumeration by chimpanzees
(Pan troglodytes) on a computerized task. Animal Cognition, 4,
81-89.
Beran, M. J., & Minahan, M. F. (2000). Monitoring spatial transpositions by
bonobos (Pan paniscus) and chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).
International Journal of Comparative Psychology, 13, 1-15.
Beran, M. J., Pate, J. L., Richardson, W. K., & Rumbaugh, D. M. (2000). A
chimpanzee's (Pan troglodytes) long-term retention of lexigrams.
Animal Learning and Behavior, 28, 201-207.
Beran, M. J., Savage-Rumbaugh, E. S., Pate, J. L., & Rumbaugh, D. M. (1999).
Delay of gratification in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Developmental
Psychobiology, 34, 119-127.
Beran, M. J., Rumbaugh, D. M., & Savage-Rumbaugh, E. S. (1998). Chimpanzee (Pan
troglodytes) counting in a computerized testing paradigm. Psychological
Record, 48, 3-20.
Beran, M. J., Savage-Rumbaugh, E. S., Brakke, K. E., Kelley, J. W., & Rumbaugh,
D. M. (1998). Symbol comprehension and learning: A "vocabulary" test of three
chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Evolution of Communication, 2,
171-188.
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