Michael J. Beran, Ph.D.
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Last updated: 
April 21, 2013

Selected Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications (click link above for full CV)

Many of these papers are available as PDF files. If you are interested in receiving a copy, please e-mail me. The links below provide abstracts for the articles, or in some cases the full articles.

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Klein, E. D., Evans, T. A., Schultz, N. B., & Beran, M. J. (2013). Learning how to “make a deal”: Human and monkey performance when repeatedly faced with the Monty Hall Dilemma. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 127, 103-108.

Paglieri, F., Focaroli, V., Bramlett, J., Tierno, V., McIntyre, J., Addessi, E., Evans, T. A., & Beran, M. J. (2013).  The hybrid delay task: Can capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella) sustain a delay after an initial choice to do so? Behavioural Processes, 94, 45-54.

Beran, M. J. (2012). Did you ever hear the one about the horse that could count?  Frontiers in Comparative Psychology, Article 257.

Beran, M. J. (2012). Quantity judgments of auditory and visual stimuli by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 38, 23-29.

Beran, M. J., Decker, S., Schwartz, A., & Smith, J. D. (2012). Uncertainty monitoring by young children in a computerized task.  Scientifica, 2012, Article 692890.

Beran, M. J., & Evans, T. A. (2012).  Language-trained chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) delay gratification by choosing token exchange over immediate reward consumption.  American Journal of Primatology, 74, 864-870.

Beran, M. J., Evans, T. A., Klein, E. D., & Einstein, G. O. (2012). Rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) and capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella) remember future responses in a computerized task. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 38, 233-243.

Beran, M. J., Owens, K., Phillips, H. A., & Evans, T. A. (2012). Humans and monkeys show similar skill in estimating uncertain outcomes. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 19, 357-362.

Beran, M. J., & Parrish, A. E. (2012). Sequential responding and planning in capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella).  Animal Cognition, 15, 1085-1094.

Beran, M. J., Perdue, B. M., Bramlett, J. L., Menzel, C. R., & Evans, T. A. (2012). Prospective memory in a language-trained chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes). Learning and Motivation, 43, 192-199. 

Beran, M. J., Perdue, B. M., Parrish, A. E., & Evans, T. A. (2012). Do social conditions affect capuchin monkeys’ (Cebus apella) choices in a quantity judgment task? Frontiers in Comparative Psychology, 3, Article 492. 

Bramlett, J. L., Perdue, B. M., Evans, T. A., & Beran, M. J. (2012). Capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella) let lesser rewards pass them by to get better rewards. Animal Cognition, 15, 963-969. 

Brosnan, S. F., Wilson, B. J., & Beran, M. J. (2012). Old World monkeys are more similar to humans than New World monkeys when playing a coordination game.  Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, 279, 522-1530.

Couchman, J. J., Beran, M. J., Coutinho, M. V. C., Boomer, J., Zakrzewski, A., Church, B. J., & Smith, J. D. (2012). Do actions speak louder than words? A comparative perspective on implicit vs. explicit metacognition and theory of mind. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 30, 210-221.

Evans, T. A., & Beran, M. J. (2012).  Monkeys exhibit prospective memory in a computerized task.  Cognition, 125, 131-140.

Evans, T. A., Beran, M. J., Paglieri, F., Addessi, E. (2012). Delaying gratification for food and tokens in capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella) and chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): When quantity is salient, symbolic stimuli do not improve performance. Animal Cognition, 15, 539-548.

Evans, T. A., Perdue, B. M., Parrish, A. E., Menzel, E., Brosnan, S. F., & Beran, M. J. (2012). How is chimpanzee self-control influenced by social setting? Scientifica, Article ID 654094.

Heimbauer, L. A., Conway, C. M., Christiansen, M. H., Beran, M. J., & Owren, M. J. (2012).  A serial reaction time (SRT) task with symmetrical joystick responding for nonhuman primates.  Behavior Research Methods, 44, 733-741.

Perdue, B. M., Talbot, C. F., Stone, A., & Beran, M. J. (2012).  Putting the elephant back in the herd: Elephant relative quantity judgments match those of other species.  Animal Cognition, 15, 955-961.

Smith, J. D., Berg, M. E., Cook, R. G., Murphy, M. S., Crossley, M. J., Boomer, J., Spiering, B., Beran, M. J., Church, B. A., Ashby, F. G., & Grace, R. C. (2012).  Implicit and explicit categorization: A tale of four species.  Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 36, 2355-2369.

Smith, J. D., Couchman, J. J., & Beran, M. J. (2012). The highs and lows of theoretical interpretation in animal-metacognition research. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 367, 1297-1309.

Smith, J. D., Crossley, M. J., Boomer, J., Church, B. A., Beran, M. J., & Ashby, F. G. (2012). Implicit and explicit category learning by capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella). Journal of Comparative Psychology, 126, 294-304.

Vonk, J., & Beran, M. J. (2012). Bears “count” too: Quantity estimation and comparison in black bears (Ursus americanus).  Animal Behaviour, 84, 231-238.

Beran, M. J. (2011). Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) show the isolation effect during serial list recognition memory tests. Animal Cognition, 14, 637-645.

Beran, M. J., Decker, S., Schwartz, A., & Schultz, N. (2011). Monkeys (Macaca mulatta and Cebus apella) and human adults and children (Homo sapiens) enumerate and compare subsets of moving stimuli based on numerosity. Frontiers in Comparative Psychology, 2, Article 61.

Beran, M. J., Evans, T. A., & Hoyle, D. (2011). Numerical judgments by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in a token economy. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 37, 165-174.

Beran, M. J., Johnson-Pynn, J. S., & Ready, C. (2011). Comparing children’s (Homo sapiens) and chimpanzees’ (Pan troglodytes) quantity judgments of sequentially presented sets of items. Current Zoology, 57, 419-428.
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Beran, M. J., & Smith, J. D. (2011). Information seeking by rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) and capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella). Cognition, 120, 90-105.

Brosnan, S. F., Parrish, A. E., Beran, M. J., Flemming, T., Heimbauer, L., Talbot, C., Lambeth, S. P., Shapiro, S. J., Wilson, B. J. (2011). Responses to the Assurance game in monkeys, apes, and humans using equivalent procedures. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108, 3442-3447.

Flemming, T. M., Thompson, R. K. R., Beran, M. J., & Washburn, D. A. (2011).  Analogical reasoning and the differential outcome effect: Transitory bridging of the conceptual gap for rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta).  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 37, 353-360.

Heimbauer, L. A., Beran, M. J., & Owren, M. J. (2011).  A chimpanzee recognizes synthetic speech with significantly reduced acoustic cues to phonetic content.  Current Biology, 21, 1210-1214. 

Klein, E. D., Evans, T. A., & Beran, M. J. (2011). An investigation of prospective and retrospective coding in capuchin monkeys and rhesus monkeys. Zeitschrift für Psychologie / Journal of Psychology, 219, 85-91.

Beran, M. J. (2010). Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) accurately compare poured liquid quantities. Animal Cognition, 13, 641-649.

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.

Couchman, J. J., Coutinho, M. V. C., Beran, M. J., Smith, J. D. (2010). Beyond stimulus cues and reinforcement signals: A new approach to animal metacognition. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 124, 356-368.

Evans, T. A., Beran, M. J., & Addessi, E. (2010). Can nonhuman primates use tokens to represent and sum quantities? Journal of Comparative Psychology, 124, 369-380. 

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. 

Washburn, D. A., Gulledge, J. P., Beran, M. J., & Smith, J. D. (2010). With his memory magnetically erased, a monkey knows he is uncertain. Biology Letters, 6, 160-162.

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 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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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. (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.

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 responses and reinforcement signals in the comparative study of uncertainty monitoring. 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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