CURRICULUM VITAE
MICHAEL J. BERAN, PH.D.
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CONTACT INFORMATION:
Business Address:
Atlanta,
Phone: 404.244.2469
E-Mail
Address:
mjberan@yahoo.com
Degree: B.
A. (1995) Cum Laude
Major: Psychology
Minor: Political
Studies
Degree: M.
A. (1997)
Program: Psychological
Sciences: Cognitive and Comparative
Master Thesis: Delay of
Gratification in Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)
Chair:
Duane M. Rumbaugh
Degree: Ph.D.
(2002)
Program: Cognitive/Social
Psychology
Dissertation: Numerical
Reasoning by Chimpanzees: Analogues of
Addition, Subtraction, and Multiplication
Chair:
David A. Washburn
Psi Chi, The National Honor Society
in Psychology, 1995
Pi Gamma Mu, The International Honor Society in
Social Science, 1997
Bailey Wade Memorial Award, Georgia State University, 1998
Richard M. Griffith Memorial Award, SSPP, 1999
Outstanding Psychology Graduate Student Award, Georgia State University, 2002
Rumbaugh Fellowship, Georgia State University,
2002-2006
U.S. National Committee for Psychology/National Academy of Sciences Travel
Grant to the International Congress of Psychology, 2004
Young Psychologist Program, International Congress of Psychology, 2004
Brenda A. Milner Award, Division 6, APA, 2005
APA Fellow - Division 6, 2007
Research Scientist,
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Georgia State University (2006-Present)
PAST PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS:
Graduate Research Assistant,
Research Associate I,
Post Doctoral Associate,
Research Associate II,
Instructor, Department of Psychology,
Duane M. Rumbaugh
Fellow,
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Comparative Learning and Behavior; Animal Cognition; Numerical Cognition; Arithmetic; Delay of Gratification; Self-Control; Metacognition; Memory; Behavioral Primatology
American Psychological Association (Member, Div. 2;
Fellow, Div. 3, Div. 6)
American Psychological Society
Psychonomic Society
Southeastern Psychological Association
Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology
International Primatological Society
American Society of Primatologists
Animal Behavior Society
Comparative Cognition Society
International Society for Comparative Psychology
Society for Computers in Psychology
PROFESSIONAL
SERVICE:
Southern Society for Philosophy and
Psychology:
Treasurer, 2006-2009
Executive Council – 2004-2006
Annual Meeting Program Chair,
Psychology – 2004-2005
Richard M. Griffith Memorial
Award Committee - 2000, 2005, 2006
Southeastern Psychological Association:
Annual Meeting Program Committee - 2006, 2007, 2008
Consulting Editor:
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes
Editorial Advisory Board:
International Journal of Comparative Psychology
Associate:
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Journal Ad hoc Reviewer:
American Journal of Primatology
Animal Cognition
Biology Letters
Cognition
Developmental Psychobiology
Hormones and Behavior
Infancy
International Journal of Comparative
Psychology
International Journal of Primatology
Journal of
Cognitive Neuroscience
Journal of
Comparative Psychology
Journal of Ethology
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal
Behavior Processes
Journal of Experimental Psychology:
General
PLoS Biology
Proceedings of the Royal Society of
Social Forces
Textbook Reviewer:
Allyn & Bacon Publishers
Thomson Publishers
SAGE
Publications
Member:
Georgia State University Animal Resources Committee
JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS (reverse chronological order):
Evans, T. A. , Beran, M. J., Harris, E. H., & Rice, D. (in press). Quantity judgments of sequentially presented food items by capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella). Animal Cognition.
Hoffman, M. L., Beran, M. J., & Washburn, D. A. (in press). Memory for 'what,' 'where,' and 'when' information in rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta). Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes.
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). The evolutionary and developmental foundations of mathematics. PLoS Biology, 6, e19.
Beran, M. J. (2008). Capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella) succeed in a test of quantity conservation. Animal Cognition, 11, 109-116.
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, chimpanzees, and rhesus monkeys. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 122, 176-185.
Rumbaugh, D. M., Washburn, D. A., King, J. E., Beran, M. J., & Gould, K. L. (2008). Why some apes imitate and/or emulate observed behavior and others do not: Fact, theory, and implications for our kind. Journal of Cognitive Education and Psychology, 7, 100-110.
Smith, J. D., Beran, M. J., Coutinho, M. V. C., Couchman, J. J. (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) succeed on a
computerized test designed to assess conservation of discrete quantity.
Animal Cognition, 10, 37-45.
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., 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.
Rumbaugh, D. M., King, J. E., Washburn, D. A., Beran, M. J., & Gould, K. L. (2007). A Salience theory of learning and behavior - with perspectives on neurobiology and cognition. International Journal of Primatology, 28, 973-996.
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.
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.
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.
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). 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. (2004). Long-term retention of the
differential values of Arabic numerals by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Animal Cognition, 7, 86-92.
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.
Rumbaugh, D. M., Beran,
M. J., & Pate, J. L. (2003). Uncertainty monitoring may promote emergents.
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 26, 353.
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, 115, 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.
Rumbaugh, D. M., & Beran, M. J. (2000). Intelligence and emergent capacities underlie
primate language ability. Foreign
Psychology, 13, 29-40.
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.
BOOK CHAPTERS, BOOK REVIEWS, AND ARTICLES
Beran, M. J., Klein, E. D., Evans, T. A., Antworth, R., and Chan, B. (2007). Perceived control, motivation, and task performance in capuchin monkeys. In P. R. Zelich (Ed.), Issues in the psychology of motivation (pp. 171-185). New York: Nova Science Publishers.
Beran, M. J. (2007). Lopping leap years, sexy primes, and bible codes: Reminders that mathematics is everywhere. [Review of the book The secret life of numbers: 50 easy pieces on how mathematicians work and think]. PsycCritiques -- Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 52 (No. 9).
Beran, M. J. (2006, November 29). Current thinking about animal thinking: Comparative cognition at a crossroads. [Review of the book Comparative cognition: Experimental explorations of animal intelligence]. PsycCritiques -- Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 51 (No. 48).
Beran, M. J., Gulledge, J. P., & Washburn, D. A. (2006). Animals count: What’s next? Contributions from the Language Research Center to primate numerical cognition research. In D. A. Washburn (Ed.), Primate Perspectives on Behavior and Cognition (pp. 161-173). Washington, DC: APA Press.
Beran, M. J. (2005).
Book Review: The evolution of thought: Evolutionary origins of great
ape intelligence by A. E. Russon and David R.
Begun and Apes, monkeys, children, and the growth of mind by J. C. Gómez. International
Journal of Primatology, 26, 1203-1207.
Beran, M. J., & Rumbaugh, D. M. (2004). Working to understand whether
memories ever leave – with a trace. Review of Memories
are made of this: How memory works in humans and animals by Rusiko Bourtchouladze.
Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 49, 433-434.
Beran, M. M., & Beran, M. J. (2004). The roots of human behavior are
found in nonhuman primates. Review of Roots of
Human Behavior by Barbara J. King. American Journal of Primatology, 63, 33-35.
Beran, M. J. (2003). Studying delay of
gratification in animals. In S. P. Shohov
(Ed.), Advances in Psychology Research Vol 24 (pp. 161-179).
Rumbaugh, D. M., & Beran, M. J. (2003). Animal language. In L. Nadel (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (pp.
138-141).
Rumbaugh, D. M., & Beran, M. J. (2003). Language acquisition by animals.
In L. Nadel (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (pp.
700-707).
Rumbaugh, D. M., Beran,
M. J., & Savage-Rumbaugh, E. S. (2003). Language. In D. Maestripieri (Ed.), Primate
psychology (pp. 395-423).
Beran, M. J., & Rumbaugh, D. M. (2001). Comparative cognitive science and the Japanese
influence in primatology. Review of Primate origins of human
cognition and behavior by Tetsuro Matsuzawa.
American Journal of Primatology,
55, 183-185.
Gibson, K. R., Rumbaugh, D. M., & Beran, M.
J. (2001). Bigger is
better: Primate brain size in relationship to
cognition. In D. Falk & K R. Gibson (Eds.), Evolutionary anatomy of the primate cerebral cortex
(pp. 79-97).
Rumbaugh, D. M., Beran,
M. J, & Elder, C. M. (2001). Infancy and the birth of competence: Bruner and
comparative-developmental research. In D. Bakhurst & S. G. Shanker
(Eds.), Jerome Bruner: Language, culture,
self (pp. 136-149).
Rumbaugh, D. M., Savage-Rumbaugh, E. S., & Beran, M.
J. (2001). The grand apes. In B. B. Beck, T. S. Stoinski,
M. Hutchins, T. S. Maple, B. Norton, A. Rowan, B. F. Stevens, & A. Arluke (Eds.), Great
apes and humans: The ethics of coexistence (pp. 245-260).
Rumbaugh, D. M., Beran,
M. J., & Hillix, W. A. (2000). Cause-effect reasoning in humans
and animals. In C. Heyes & L. Huber
(Eds.), The evolution of cognition (pp. 221-238).
Beran, M. J., Gibson, K. R., & Rumbaugh, D. M. (1999). Predicting hominid intelligence
from brain size. In M. C. Corballis & S.
E. G. Lea (Eds.), The descent of mind: Psychological perspectives on
hominid evolution (pp. 88-97).
Barrett, N. A., Beran, M. J., & Washburn, D. A. (November, 2007). Hemovelocity and performance demonstrate that complexity limits visual short term memory. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 12, 64.
Beran, M. J., Smith, J. D., Couchman, J. J., & Coutinho, M. V. C. (November, 2007). Dissociation of “uncertainty” responses and “middle” responses in capuchin monkeys. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 12, 17-18.
Beran, M. J., & Evans, T. A. (2006). Self-control in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) is not mediated by experimenter presence or reward source visibility. American Journal of Primatology, 68 (S1), 118.
Evans, T. A., & Beran, M. J. (2006). Self-control in a delay maintenance task by rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta). American Journal of Primatology, 68 (S1), 74-75.
Washburn, D. A., Beran, M. J., Evans, T. A., & Vanman, E. J. (2006). Domain specificity in inhibition of responding by macaques. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 11, 68.
Beran, M. J.,
Smith, J. D.,
Beran, M.
J., Washburn, D. A., & Kleinman, S. (2003). Attention Network Task performance by children and
rhesus monkeys. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society,
8, 38.
Menzel, C. R., Beran,
M. J., Kelley, J. W., & Sanchez,
Baker, L., Beran, M., & Taglialatela, J.
(2001). MTS accuracy by
Pan troglodytes as a function of surface color and
form information. American
Journal of Primatology, 54 (S1), 87.
Beran, M., Pate, J., Washburn, D.,
& Rumbaugh, D. (2001). Sequential responding and planning in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)
and rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta).
American Journal of Primatology, 54 (S1), 100.
Beran, M. J. (2000). Two chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)
compare non-visible sums of candy pieces. American
Journal of Primatology, 51 (S1), 43-44.
Minahan, M. F., Beran,
M. J., & Savage-Rumbaugh, E. S. (2000). Object permanence in bonobos
(Pan paniscus) and
chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). American Journal of Primatology, 51 (S1), 75.
Rilling, J., Kilts, C., Williams, S., Beran,
M., Giroux, M., Hoffman, J. M., Rapoport, S., Savage-Rumbaugh, S., & Rumbaugh, D.
(2000). A comparative PET study of linguistic processing in
humans and language-competent chimpanzees. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 111 (S),
263.
Rilling, J., Kilts, C., Williams, S. L., Kelley, J. W., Beran, M. J., Giroux, M., Hoffman, J. M., Savage-Rumbaugh, E. S., & Rumbaugh,
D. M. (1999). Functional neuroimaging
of linguistic processing in chimpanzees. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 25,
2170.
Williams, S. L., Beran, M. J., & Rumbaugh, D.
M. (1999). Self-judgment
of performance by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). American Journal of Primatology,
49, 114-115.
Beran, M. J., & Rumbaugh, D. M. (1998). Delay of gratification in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).
American Journal of Primatology,
45, 169-170.
PRESENTATIONS (invited presentations in italics):
Heimbauer, L. A., Antworth, R. A., Conway, C. M., Christiansen, M. H., Beran, M. J., & Owren, M. J. (August, 2008). Testing sequence learning in rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta). Poster presented at the 22nd Meeting of the International Primatological Society, Edinburgh, Scotland.
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., 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. (March, 2008). Primate willpower. Keynote address at the Southeast Missouri State University Student Research Conference, Cape Girardeau, MO.
Beran, M. J. (March, 2008). How do chimpanzees and monkeys respond to their own fallibility and impulsivity? Georgia State University Neurophilosophy Lecture Series, Atlanta, GA.
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.
Coutinho, M., Boomer, J., Couchman, J., Smith, J. D., & Beran, M. J. (March, 2008). Experiments in the sustainability of categorization rules without direct feedback for humans and for rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta). Paper presented at the 100th Annual Meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, New Orleans, LA.
Evans, T. A., Beran, M. J., Harris, E. H., Rice, D., & Leighty, K. A. (March, 2008). Quantification and summation of food items by capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella). Paper presented at the 100th Annual Meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, New Orleans, LA.
Flemming, T. M., Beran, M. J., & Washburn, D. A. (March, 2008). What it means to think analogically: From percepts to symbols. Paper presented at the 100th Annual Meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, New Orleans, LA.
Harris, E. H., Gulledge, J. P., Beran, M. J., Washburn, D. A. (March, 2008). The use of absolute numerical knowledge by rhesus monkeys. Paper presented at the 100th Annual Meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, New Orleans, LA.
Hoffman, M. L., Beran, M. J., & Washburn, D. A. (March,
2008). What-where-when memory in rhesus monkeys: Presenting sequential events to
examine the role of relative familiarity. Paper presented at the 100th Annual
Meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, New Orleans, LA.
[Winner - SSPP Graduate Student Travel Grant Award]
Klein, E. D., Beran, M. J., Evans, T. A., & Barrett, N. (March, 2008). Decision making in the 3-door problem by humans, rhesus Monkeys, and capuchin monkeys. Paper presented at the 100th Annual Meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, New Orleans, LA.
Von Glahn, N. R., Washburn, D. A., Evans, T. A., Beran, M. J. (March, 2008). Do rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) show attentional blink during a rapid serial visual presentation? Paper presented at the 100th Annual Meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, New Orleans, LA.
Beran, M. J. (January, 2008). Primate mathematics: A return to parsimony. Paper presented at the Hard Data Café, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA.
Barrett, N. A., Beran, M. J., & Washburn, D. A. (November, 2007). Hemovelocity and performance demonstrate that complexity limits visual short term memory. Paper presented at the 48th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, CA.
Beran, M. J. (November, 2007). Math lessons for monkeys: Using computers to present old problems in new ways. Paper presented at the Paper presented at the 37th Annual Meeting of the Society for Computers in Psychology, Long Beach, CA.
Beran, M. J., Smith, J. D., Couchman, J. J., & Coutinho, M. V. C. (November, 2007). Dissociation of “uncertainty” responses and “middle” responses in capuchin monkeys. Paper presented at the 48th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, CA.
Robinson, E. L., Washburn, D. A., Beran, M. J., & Fuller, C. A. (November, 2007). Blue light effects depend on time of exposure in rhesus monkeys. Poster presented at the 37th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience.
Beran, M. J. (August, 2007). Enumeration, estimation, and ‘fuzzy’ math by chimpanzees. Paper presented at the 115th Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, San Francisco, CA.
Beran, M. J. (July, 2007). The Von Restorff effect in
chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) recognition memory. Poster presented at the
joint meeting of the Experimental Psychology Society and the Psychonomics
Society, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Smith, J. D., Beran, M. J., & Redford, J. S. (July 2007). Generalizeable
uncertainty responses in the comparative study of metacognition. Paper presented
at the joint meeting of the Experimental Psychology Society and the Psychonomics
Society, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Beran, M. J., Harris, E. H., & Evans, T. A. (April, 2007). Perception of food amounts by chimpanzees based on number of items, presentation arrangement, and visibility. Paper presented at the 99th Annual Meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Atlanta, GA.
Flemming, T. M., Beran, M. J., & Washburn, D. A.
(April, 2007). Reasoning of same/different size analogies by rhesus monkeys
(Macaca mulatta). Paper presented at the 99th Annual Meeting of the Southern
Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Atlanta, GA.
[Winner - SSPP Graduate Student Travel Grant Award]
Harris, E. H., Beran, M. J., Evans, T. A., Klein, E. D., Chan, B., Flemming, T. M., & Washburn, D. A. (April, 2007). Ordinal judgments of Arabic numerals by capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella) and rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta). Paper presented at the 99th Annual Meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Atlanta, GA.
Hoffman, M. L., Beran, M. J., & Washburn, D. A. (March, 2007). Working memory for what-where-when information in rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta). Paper presented at the 99th Annual Meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Atlanta, GA.
Hoffman, M. L., Beran, M. J., & Washburn, D. A. (March, 2007). Working memory for what-where-when information in rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta). 14th Annual International Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne Beach, FL
Beran, M. J., Chan, B., Evans, T. A., Flemming, T. J., Harris, E. H., Klein, E. D., Rumbaugh, D. M., & Washburn, D. A. (November, 2006). A computerized method for testing primate intelligence across species, ages, and input devices. Paper presented at the 36th Annual Meeting of the Society for Computers in Psychology, Houston, TX.
Washburn, D. A., Beran, M. J., Evans, T. A., & Vanman,
E. J. (2006, November). Domain specificity in inhibition of responding by
macaques. Poster
presented at the 47th
Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Houston, TX.
Beran, M. J. (2006, August). Chimpanzee symbol-mindedness: Numbers and names for the long term. Invited presentation at the presented at the 114th Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, New Orleans, LA.
Beran, M. J., & Evans, T. A. (2006, August). Self-control in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) is not mediated by experimenter presence or reward source visibility. Poster presented at the 29th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Primatologists, San Antonio, TX.
Evans, T. A., & Beran, M. J. (2006, August). Self-control in a delay maintenance task by rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta). Poster presented at the 29th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Primatologists, San Antonio, TX.
Beran, M. J. (2006, April). Rhesus monkeys respond to
sequentially presented sets on the basis of numerical as opposed to
non-numerical cues. Paper presented at the 98th Annual Meeting of the Southern
Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Charleston, SC.
Evans, T. A., Beran, M J. (2006, April). Maintenance of delay of gratification by
chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): Testing the influence of source visibility
and experimenter presence on self-control. Paper presented at the 98th Annual
Meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Charleston, SC.
Flemming, T. M., Beran, M. J., & Washburn, D. A. (2006, April). What meaning
means for same and different: relational learning by three primate species.
Paper presented at the 98th Annual Meeting of the Southern Society for
Philosophy and Psychology, Charleston, SC.
Harris, E. H., Beran, M. J., & Washburn, D. A. (2006,
April). High Rollers?: Monkeys decide between low probability/high reward and
high probability/low reward outcomes. Paper presented at the 98th Annual Meeting
of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Charleston, SC.
[Winner - SSPP Student Travel Grant Award]
Hoffman, M. L., Beran, M. J., & Washburn, D. A. (2006,
April). Working memory for "what" and "where" information in rhesus macaques.
Paper presented at the 98th Annual Meeting of the Southern Society for
Philosophy and Psychology, Charleston, SC.
Beran, M. J. (2006, March). Stimulus organization affects quantity perception by
humans, chimpanzees, and monkeys. Paper presented at the 52nd Annual Meeting of
the Southeastern Psychological Association, Atlanta, GA.
Evans, T. A., & Beran, M. J. (2006, March). Maintenance of delay of
gratification by rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta). Poster presented at
the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association, Atlanta,
GA.
Flemming, T. M., Beran, M. J., Washburn, D. A. (2006, March). Labeling of
abstract relations by rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta). Poster presented
at the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association,
Atlanta, GA.
Hoffman, M. L., Beran, M. J., & Washburn, D. A. (2006, March). Chimpanzees
remember food locations after changing their orientation in space. Poster
presented at the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Psychological
Association, Atlanta, GA.
Beran, M. J.,
Smith, J. D.,
Flemming, T. J., Beran, M. J., & Washburn, D. A. (2005, April). The salience of color in categorization and set-switching by rhesus monkeys. Poster presented at the 51st Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association, Nashville, TN.
Harris, E. H., Beran, M. J., & Washburn, D. A. (2005, April). Serial learning of numerals, colors, and signs by rhesus monkeys. Poster presented at the
51st Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association, Nashville,
TN.
Johnson-Pynn, J. S., Ready, C., & Beran,
M. J. (2005, April).
Estimation mediates preschoolers' numerical reasoning: Evidence against precise
calculation abilities. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for
Research in Child Development, Atlanta, GA.
Beran, M. J. (2005, March). The life and
career of Harry F. Harlow (1905-1981).
Paper presented at the 97th Annual Meeting of the Southern Society for
Philosophy and Psychology,
Beran, M. J., Smith, J. D.,
Smith, J. D., Beran,
M. J.,
Flemming, T. J., Beran,
M. J., & Washburn, D. A. (2005, March). Perception of abstract relations
by rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta): Same vs. different or uniformity vs.
chaos? Paper presented at the
97th Annual Meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology,
[Winner - SSPP Student Travel Grant Award]
Flemming, T. J., Beran,
M. J., & Washburn, D. A. (2005, March). Same vs.
different or uniformity vs. chaos?: Perception of
abstract relations by rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta). Poster presented at the
12th Annual Comparative Cognition Conference, Melbourne, FL.
Beran, M. J., Beran,
M. M., Taglialatela, L. A., & Washburn, D. A.
(2004, August). Numerousness judgments by
chimpanzees and humans: Evidence of a shared mechanism for estimation. Paper presented at the 28th International
Congress of Psychology,
Rumbaugh, D. M., Washburn, D. A., & Beran, M. J. (2004, August). Emergents and
rational behaviorism: The processes of learning, conditioning, and
reinforcement in creativity.
Paper presented at the 28th International Congress of Psychology,
Beran, M. J. (2004, July).
Life and career of Donald Olding
Hebb (1904-1985). Paper presented at the 112th
Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association,
Taglialatela, L. A., Beran,
M. J., Taglialatela, J. P., & Pate, J. L. (2004,
July). Role
of color in object identification by humans and chimpanzees. Poster
presented at the 112th Annual Meeting of the American Psychological
Association,
[Winner - APA Division 6 Outstanding Student Poster Award]
Washburn, D. A.,
Harris, E. H., Gulledge, J. P., & Beran, M. J. (2004, May). What do
monkeys understand about Arabic numerals?
Poster presented at the 16th Annual Meeting of the American
Psychological Society,
Beran, M. J. (2004, April). Continued studies of delay of gratification in nonhuman primates. Paper presented at the 96th Annual Meeting of
the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology,
Beran, M. J., Washburn, D. A., Gulledge, J. P., & Rumbaugh,
D. M. (2003, November). Using computers to study nonhuman primate numerical cognition.
Paper presented at the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Society for
Computers in Psychology,
Beran, M. J., Washburn, D. A., & Kleinman, S. (2003, November). Attention Network Task (ANT) performance by children
and rhesus monkeys. Poster presented at the 44th Annual Meeting of
the Psychonomic Society,
Beran, M. J. (2003, October). 1-2-3-4:
Chimpanzees count and make judgments of 'more.' Invited
presentation, Berry College, Rome, GA.
Menzel, C. R., Beran,
M. J., Kelley, J. W., & Sanchez,
Beran, M. J., & Beran, M. M. (2003, May). Chimpanzees remember the results of one-by-one
addition of food items to sets over extended time periods.
Poster presented at the 15th Annual Meeting of the
American Psychological Society, Atlanta, GA.
Washburn, D. A., Gulledge,
J. P., Baker, L. A., Raby, P. R., Beran,
M. J., & Kleinman, S. N. (2003, May). Attention factors and the Attention Network Task. Poster presented at the 15th Annual Meeting of the American
Psychological Society, Atlanta, GA.
Beran, M. J. (2003, April). Chimpanzees’
numerousness judgements of sequentially and
simultaneously presented sets. Paper presented at the 95th
Annual Meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology,
Beran, M. J. (2002, November). Studies of numerousness
judgments of sequentially presented sets by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Paper presented at the COE/SAGA5
International Symposium "Evolution of the apes and the origin of the human
beings,"
Baker, L., Beran, M., & Taglialatela, J.
(2002, October). MTS
accuracy by Pan troglodytes as a function of
surface color and form information. Poster presented at the "Emergents and Rational Behaviorism" festschrift in
honor of Duane M. Rumbaugh,
Beran, M. J., Pate, J. L., Brakke,
K. E., Kelley, J. W., & Rumbaugh, D. M. (2002,
October). Long-term retention of lexigram
meanings by the
Beran, M. M., & Beran, M. J. (2002, October). Delay of gratification by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and an orangutan (Pongo
pygmaeus). Poster presented at the "Emergents and Rational Behaviorism" festschrift in
honor of Duane M. Rumbaugh,
Washburn, D. A., Beran, M. J., & Gulledge, J.
P. (2002, October). Reasoning, representation, and ‘rithmetic.
Paper presented at the "Emergents and Rational
Behaviorism" festschrift in honor of Duane M. Rumbaugh,
Beran, M. J. (2002, April). Math
matters: Chimpanzees and other nonhuman animals. Invited paper presented
at the Hard Data Café,
Beran, M. J., Pate, J. L., &
Washburn, D. A. (2002, March). Chimpanzee responding in a symbolic match-to-sample
task: Selection by exclusion. Paper presented at the 94th
Annual Meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology,
Beran, M. J., Washburn, D. A., & Rumbaugh, D. M. (2002, March). Rhesus monkeys learn despite second-order
stimulus-response spatial discontiguity. Poster presented at the 48th Annual Meeting of the
Southeastern Psychological Association, Orlando, FL.
Minahan, M. F., Beran,
M. J., & Washburn, D. A. (2002, March). Remembering and tracking hidden items by chimpanzees
(Pan troglodytes). Poster presented at the 48th Annual
Meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association,
Baker, L., Beran, M., & Taglialatela, J.
(2001, August). MTS
accuracy by Pan troglodytes as a function of
surface color and form information. Poster presented at the
24th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Primatologists,
Savannah, GA.
Beran, M. J., Pate, J. L., Washburn,
D. A., & Rumbaugh, D. M. (2001, August). Sequential responding and planning in chimpanzees (Pan
troglodytes) and rhesus macaques (Macaca
mulatta). Poster presented at the 24th Annual
Meeting of the American Society for Primatologists,
Savannah, GA.
Washburn, D. A., & Beran, M. J. (2001, August). Animals count; What’s next?
Paper presented at the 109th Annual Meeting of the American
Psychological Association,
Washburn, D. A., Beran, M. J., & Rumbaugh, D.
M. (2001, August). Comparative assessment of cognition with the Psychomotor Test
System. Paper presented at the Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency’s Continuous Assisted Performance Teaming Workshop,
Beran, M. J., Pate, J. L., Washburn,
D. A., & Rumbaugh, D. M. (2001, April). Sequential responding and planning in chimpanzees (Pan
troglodytes) and rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta).
Paper presented at the 93rd Annual Meeting of the
Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, New Orleans, LA.
Beran, M. J. (2001, March). Comparisons of summed
quantities by two chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).
Poster presented at the 47th Annual Meeting of the
Southeastern Psychological Association, Atlanta, GA.
Beran, M. J. (2000, June). Two chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) compare non-visible sums of candy pieces.
Paper presented at the 23rd Annual Meeting of the American Society
of Primatologists, Boulder, CO.
Minahan, M. F., Beran,
M. J., & Rumbaugh, D. M. (2000, June). Spatial monitoring in bonobos
(Pan paniscus) and
chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Poster presented at the 23rd
Annual Meeting of the American Society of Primatologists,
Boulder, CO.
Beran, M. J. (2000, April). Is 2+3+2
more than 1+2+3? Two chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)
compare sums of non-visible candy pieces. Paper presented at
the 92nd Annual Meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and
Psychology, Atlanta, GA.
Rilling, J., Kilts, C., Williams, S. L., Beran,
M. J., Giroux, M., Hoffman, J. M, Rapoport, S.,
Savage-Rumbaugh, E. S., & Rumbaugh,
D. M. (2000, April). A comparative PET study of linguistic processing in humans
and language-competent chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).
Poster presented at the 69th Annual Meeting of the American
Association of Physical Anthropologists,
Rumbaugh, D. M., Kilts, C., Rilling, J., Beran, M. J., Elder,
C., Williams, S., & Kelley, J. (2000, April). Functional imaging of language
skills in chimpanzees: Implications of early-rearing variables. Paper presented at the 92nd Annual Meeting of the
Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Atlanta, GA.
Beran, M. J., Pate, J. L., & Rumbaugh, D. M. (2000, March). Lana chimpanzee's 20-year
retention of lexigrams. Paper
presented at the 7th Annual International Conference on Comparative
Cognition, Melbourne, FL.
Rilling, J., Kilts, C., Williams, S. L., Kelley, J. W., Beran, M. J., Giroux, M., Hoffman, J. M., Savage-Rumbaugh, E. S., & Rumbaugh,
D. M. (1999, October). Functional neuroimaging
of linguistic processing in chimpanzees. Poster
presented at the 29th Annual Meeting of the Society for
Neuroscience, Miami, FL.
Rilling, J., Kilts, C., Williams, S. L., Kelley, J. W., Beran, M. J., Giroux, M., Hoffman, J. M., Savage-Rumbaugh, E. S., & Rumbaugh,
D. M. (1999, November). Functional neuroimaging
of linguistic processing in chimpanzees. Poster presented at SAGA/COE
International Symposium,
Williams, S. L., Beran, M. J., & Rumbaugh, D.
M. (1999, August).
Self-judgment of performance by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).
Paper presented at the 22nd Annual Meeting of the
American Society of Primatologists, New Orleans, LA.
Beran, M. J. (1999, April). Delay of gratification in
three chimpanzees. Paper presented at the 91st
Annual Meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology,
Louisville, KY.
[Winner - Griffith Memorial Award, SSPP]
Beran, M. J., & Rumbaugh, D. M. (1998, June). Delay of gratification in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Paper presented at the 21st
Annual Meeting of the American Society of Primatologists,
Beran, M. J., Savage-Rumbaugh, E. S., & Brakke, K.
E. (1998, April). Language
comprehension in three chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes):
Effect of rearing on level of comprehension. Paper presented at the 2nd International Conference on the Evolution of
Language,
Beran, M. J., Rumbaugh,
D. M., & Savage-Rumbaugh, E. S. (1997, March). Evaluation of current language comprehension in
three chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): Effect of
rearing on duration of language comprehension. Paper
presented at the 89th Annual Meeting of the Southern Society for
Philosophy and Psychology, Atlanta, GA.
Beran, M. J., Rumbaugh,
D. M., & Savage-Rumbaugh, E. S. (1996, August). Performance of a chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) on a computerized counting task. Poster Session at the 16th Congress of the International
Primatological Society,
Undergraduate Level:
Laboratory teaching assistant - Georgia State University - Animal Learning and Behavior (1997, 1998)
Guest lecturer - Georgia State University - Animal Learning and Behavior (1998), Primate Behavior (1999), Introduction to Psychological Science (1999); Agnes Scott College - Learning and Memory (2008)
Lecturer - Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia - Cognitive Psychology; Psychology of Learning (2003-2007)
Graduate Level:
Instructor - Georgia State University - Computer Based Experiment Generation (2006)
Guest lecturer - Georgia State University - Origins of Language (2001), Cognitive Psychology (2005), Learning (2005)
FUNDED GRANTS (CURRENT FUNDING IN ITALICS):
Beran, M. J., Johnson-Pynn, J.
S. (2004-2009). Comparative
studies of numerical cognition in human and nonhuman primates. National
Brosnan, S. F., Beran, M. J., & Wilson, B. J. (2007-2010). Understanding strategic economic interactions in monkeys, apes, and humans. National Science Foundation.
Smith, J. D., & Beran, M. J. (2006-2009). Metacognition as a precursor to self-consciousness: evolution, development, and epistemology. National Science Foundation and European Science Foundation.
Pate, J. L., Beran,
M. J., & Rumbaugh, D. M. (1999-2002). The emergence of symbolic processing in human and nonhuman
primates. National
Last updated: August 1, 2008