CURRICULUM VITAE

MICHAEL J. BERAN, PH.D.

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CONTACT INFORMATION:

Business Address:            Language Research Center

Georgia State University

University Plaza

Atlanta, GA 30303

Phone:                                  404.413.5285

E-Mail Address:                  mjberan@yahoo.com

 

EDUCATIONAL HISTORY:

Oglethorpe University, Atlanta, Georgia

Degree:                     B. A. (1995) Cum Laude
Major:                        Psychology
Minor:                        Political Studies

Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia

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

 

HONORS AND AWARDS:

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
APA Fellow - Division 3, 2008
  

CURRENT POSITIONS

Senior Research Scientist, Language Research Center, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia (2009-Present)

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Georgia State University (2006-Present)

 

PAST PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS:

Graduate Research Assistant, Language Research Center, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia (1995-1999)

Research Associate I, Language Research Center, Georgia State University (1999-2002)

Post Doctoral Associate, Language Research Center, Georgia State University (2003-3005)

Research Associate II, Language Research Center, Georgia State University (2003-2005)

Research Scientist, Language Research Center, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia (2005-2009)

Instructor, Department of Psychology, Spelman College, Atlanta, GA (2003-2007)

Duane M. Rumbaugh Fellow, Georgia State University (2002-2004)

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Comparative Learning and Behavior; Animal Cognition; Numerical Cognition; Arithmetic; Delay of Gratification; Prospective Memory; Planning; Self-Control; Metacognition; Memory; Behavioral Primatology; Decision-Making

 

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS:

American Psychological Association (Fellow, Div. 3, Fellow, Div. 6; Member, Div. 2)
American Psychological Society
Psychonomic Society
Southeastern Psychological Association
Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology
Comparative Cognition Society
International Society for Comparative Psychology
Society for Computers in Psychology

 

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:

American Psychological Association:

            Division 3 Awards Chair, 2008-2009

            Division 6 Executive Council, Member-at-Large, 2010-2012

Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology:

            Treasurer, 2006-2012
            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 - 2006-2009

Consulting Editor:

            Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes (2007 - 2009)

Editorial Advisory Board:

            International Journal of Comparative Psychology (2006- )
            The Psychological Record (2009 - )

Associate:

            Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Journal Ad hoc Reviewer:

American Journal of Primatology
Animal Behaviour
Animal Cognition
Behavioural Processes
Biology Letters
Cognition
Cognitive Development
Developmental Psychobiology
Developmental Science
 Ethology
Experimental Brain Research
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 London: Biology
Psychological Record
Psychonomic Bulletin and Review
 Social Forces

Grant Reviewer:


            National Institutes of Health

 

            National Science Foundation
                    Cognitive Neuroscience Program

 

            European Science Foundation

 

            Konrad Lorenz Institute

 

Textbook Reviewer:

            Allyn & Bacon Publishers
            Thomson Publishers
            SAGE Publications

Member:

Language Research Center - Animal Contact Committee
            Georgia State University - Animal Resources Committee
            Georgia State University - Emergency Response Organization

 

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS (reverse chronological order):

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

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

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

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.

Harris, E. H., Gulledge, J. P., Beran, M. J., & Washburn, D. A. (2010). What do Arabic numerals mean to macaques (Macaca mulatta)? 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 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.

 

Couchman, J. J., Countinho, M. V. C., Beran, M. J., & Smith, J. D. (2009).  Metacognition is prior. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 32, 142. 

 

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.

Smith, J. D., Beran, M. J., Couchman, J. J., Coutinho, M. V. C., & Boomer, J. (2009). The curious case of the capuchins. Comparative Cognition and Behavior Reviews, 4, 47-50.

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., 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) 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

Smith, J. D., Coutinho, M. V. C., Boomer, J., & Beran, M. J. (in press). Metacognition across species. In J. Vonk and T. Shackelford (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Comparative Evolutionary Psychology. Oxford University Press.

Beran, M. J. (2009).  Three questions I am often asked.  Eye on Psi Chi, 14, 15-19.

Beran, M. J., Couchman, J. J., Coutinho, M. V. C., Boomer, J., & Smith, J. D. (2010). Metacognition in nonhumans: Methodological and theoretical issues. In A. Efklides & P. Misailidi (Eds.), Trends and prospects in metacognition research. Springer.

Beran, M. J., Coutinho, M. V. C., Couchman, J. J., Boomer, J., Washburn, D. A., & Smith, J. D. (2009). Metacognition in animals. In C. B. Larson (Ed.), Metacognition: New research developments. New York: Nova Science Publishers.

Beran, M. J., Evans, T. A., & Washburn, D. A. (2009). Comparing methods for assessing learning and cognition in primates. In E. Potocki & J. Krasinski (Eds.) Primatology: Theories, methods and research (pp. 153-170). New York: Nova Science Publishers.

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).  New York: Nova Science Publishers.

Rumbaugh, D. M., & Beran, M. J. (2003). Animal language. In L. Nadel (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (pp. 138-141). London: Macmillan.

Rumbaugh, D. M., & Beran, M. J. (2003). Language acquisition by animals. In L. Nadel (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (pp. 700-707). London: Macmillan.

Rumbaugh, D. M., Beran, M. J., & Savage-Rumbaugh, E. S. (2003). Language. In D. Maestripieri (Ed.), Primate psychology (pp. 395-423). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

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). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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). London: Sage.

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). Washington: Smithsonian Institute Press.

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). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

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). New York: Oxford University Press.

 

PUBLISHED ABSTRACTS

Beran, M. J., Klein, E. D., Evans, T. A., & Einstein, G. O. (2010). Prospective memory and planning by rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) on a computerized task. American Journal of Primatology, 72, 66.

Evans, T. A., Beran, M. J., & Hoyle, D. (2010). Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) delay gratification by accepting tokens in lieu of rewards. American Journal of Primatology, 72, 65.

Heimbauer, L. A., Conway, C. M., Christiansen, M. H., Beran, M. J., & Owren, M. O. (2010). Grammar rule-based sequence learning by rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta). American Journal of Primatology, 72, 65.

Parrish, A. E., Beran, M. J., Wilson, B., & Brosnan, S. F. (2010). Understanding economic decision making during coordination games in monkeys and apes. American Journal of Primatology, 72, 55.

Washburn, D. A., Beran, M. J., Evans, T. A., & Espy, K. A. (2009). Simians in the Shape School: A comparative study of executive attention. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 14, 19.

Heimbauer, L. A., Beran, M. J., & Owren, M. J. (September, 2009). Word recognition in the absence of traditional acoustic cues by a language-trained chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes). American Journal of Primatology, 71, 37.

Beran, M. J., Klein, E. D., & Evans, T. A. (2008).  Monkeys plan and remember future responses. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 13, 39.

 

Heimbauer, L. A., Beran, M. J, & Owren, M. J. (2008). Speech perception in a language-trained chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes). Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 124, 2460.

 

Klein, E. D., Beran, M. J., Evans, T. A., & Schultz, N. A. (2008). Primate decision making in the Monty Hall three-door problem. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 13, 12.

 

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., Redford, J. S., & Washburn, D. A. (2005). Rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) monitor uncertainty during numerosity judgments.  Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 10, 60-61.

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, I. C. (2003). A chimpanzee’s recall and reporting of multiple hidden objects. American Journal of Primatology, 60, 45-46.

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.

 

INVITED ADDRESSES AND INVITED SYMPOSIA:

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. Paper presented 102nd Annual Meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Atlanta, GA.

 

Smith, J. D., & Beran, M. J. (October, 2009). Animal metacognition: The extended mind in self-interaction. Paper presented at the EUROCORES Program conference Consciousness in a Natural and Cultural, Edinburgh, Scotland.

 

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., 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. (February, 2009). Monkey mathematicians: Quantity comparisons by capuchins and macaques. Invited paper presented at the 54th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association, New Orleans, LA.

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

Beran, M. J. (August ,2008). Animal willpower?  Studying delay of gratification in nonhuman primates.  Invited New Fellows address 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.  Invited 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?  Invited paper at the Georgia State University Neurophilosophy Lecture Series, Atlanta, GA.

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

Beran, M. J. (January, 2008). Primate mathematics: A return to parsimony.  Invited paper presented at the Hard Data Café, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA.

Beran, M. J. (November, 2007). Math lessons for monkeys: Using computers to present old problems in new ways. Invited paper presented at the Paper presented at the 37th Annual Meeting of the Society for Computers in Psychology, Long Beach, CA.

Beran, M. J. (August, 2007). Enumeration, estimation, and ‘fuzzy’ math by chimpanzees. Invited paper presented at the 115th Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, San Francisco, CA.

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.

Rumbaugh, D. M., Washburn, D. A., & Beran, M. J. (2004, August).  Emergents and rational behaviorism: The processes of learning, conditioning, and reinforcement in creativity.  Invited paper presented at the 28th International Congress of Psychology, Beijing, China.

Beran, M. J. (2004, July).  Life and career of Donald Olding Hebb (1904-1985). Invited paper presented at the 112th Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, Honolulu, HI.

Beran, M. J. (2004, April). Continued studies of delay of gratification in nonhuman primates.  Invited paper presented at the 96th Annual Meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, New Orleans, LA.

Beran, M. J. (2003, October). 1-2-3-4: Chimpanzees count and make judgments of 'more.' Invited presentation, Berry College, Rome, GA.

Beran, M. J. (2002, November). Studies of numerousness judgments of sequentially presented sets by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Invited paper presented at the COE/SAGA5 International Symposium "Evolution of the apes and the origin of the human beings," Inuyama, Japan.

Beran, M. J. (2002, April). Math matters: Chimpanzees and other nonhuman animals. Invited paper presented at the Hard Data Café, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA.

Washburn, D. A., & Beran, M. J. (2001, August). Animals count; What’s next? Invited

paper presented at the 109th Annual Meeting of the American Psychological

Association, San Francisco, CA.

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, Inuyama, Japan.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:

Evans, T. A., Beran, M. J., Klein, E. D., & Einstein, G. O. (July, 2010). Prospects for prospective memory research with monkeys. Poster presented at the 3rd Biennial International Conference on Prospective Memory, Vancouver, Canada.

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.

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.

Couchman, J. J., Beran, M. J., & Smith, J. D. (November, 2009). Recognizing future uncertainty. Paper presented at the Comparative Cognition meeting, Boston, MA.

Washburn, D. A., Beran, M. J., & Evans, T. A. (November, 2009). Are monkeys “playing” when they’re working on game-like computer tasks?  Paper presented at the 39th Annual Meeting of the Society for Computers in Psychology, Boston, MA.

Washburn, D. A., Beran, M. J., Evans, T. A., & Espy, K. A. (November, 2009). Simians in the Shape School: A comparative study of executive attention. Paper presented at the 50th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, MA.

Owens, K. D., Evans, T. A., & Beran, M. J. (October, 2009). Monkeys and humans spontaneously calculate reward amount across trials and use that information in the face of uncertainty.  Poster presented at the 9th annual Psychology Undergraduate Research Conference, Atlanta, GA. 

Heimbauer, L. A., Beran, M. J., & Owren, M. J. (September, 2009). Word recognition in the absence of traditional acoustic cues by a language-trained chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes). Poster presented at the 32nd annual meeting of the American Society of Primatologists, San Diego, CA.

Boomer, J., Couchman, J. J., Countiho, M. V. C., Smith, J. D., Beran, M. J., & Paul. E. J. (July, 2009). Discerning the cognitive level of uncertainty monitoring in humans and rhesus macaques. Poster presented at the Metacognition and Mindreading Conference, Salzburg, Austria.

Couchman, J. J., Beran, M. J., & Smith, J. D. (July, 2009). Animal metacognition: Cognitive and temporally extended. Poster presented at the Metacognition and Mindreading Conference, Salzburg, Austria.

Heimbauer, L. A., Beran, M. J., & Owren, M. J. (May, 2009). Perception of voiced- only and noise-vocoded speech by a language-trained chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes). Poster presented at the 157th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Portland, OR.

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 101st 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 101st 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 101st 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 101st 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 101st 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. (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.

 

Heimbauer, L. A., Beran, M. J., & Owren, M. J. (November, 2008).  Speech perception in a language trained chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes).  Poster presented at the 156th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Miami, FL.

 

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.

 

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 International Society for Comparative Psychology, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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. (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.

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., 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. (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., & 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., Redford, J. S., & Washburn, D. A. (2005, November).  Rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) monitor uncertainty during numerosity judgments.  Poster presented at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Toronto, Canada.

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, Durham, NC.

Beran, M. J., Smith, J. D., Redford, J. S., & Washburn, D. A. (2005, March).  Is 6 more than 5? Rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) monitor uncertainty during numerosity judgments.  Paper presented at the 97th Annual Meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Durham, NC.

Smith, J. D., Beran, M. J., Redford, J. S., & Washburn, D. A.  (2005, March). Dissociating uncertainty states and reinforcement signals in the comparative study of metacognition  Paper presented at the 97th Annual Meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Durham, NC.

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, Durham, NC. 
[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, Beijing, China.

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, Honolulu, HI.
[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, Chicago, IL.

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, Vancouver, Canada.

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, Vancouver, Canada.

Menzel, C. R., Beran, M. J., Kelley, J. W., & Sanchez, I. C. (2003, August). A chimpanzee’s recall and reporting of multiple hidden items. Paper presented at the 26th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Primatologists, Calgary, Alberta.

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, Atlanta, GA.

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, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA.

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 Language Research Center chimpanzees. Poster presented at the "Emergents and Rational Behaviorism" festschrift in honor of Duane M. Rumbaugh, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA.

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, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA.

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, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA.

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, Nashville, TN.

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, Orlando, FL.

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., & 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, Las Vegas, NV.

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, San Antonio, TX.

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.

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, Georgetown, TX.

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, London, UK.

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 presented at the 16th Congress of the International Primatological Society, Madison, WI.

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

Undergraduate Level:

 

Fall 1997 - Animal Learning and Behavior – GSU (lab section)

Spring 1998 - Animal Learning and Behavior – GSU (lab section)

Fall 1998 – Animal Learning and Behavior – GSU (guest lecturer)

Fall 1999 - Primate Behavior – GSU (guest lecturer)

Fall 1999 - Introduction to Psychological Science – GSU (guest lecturer)

Spring 2003 – Cognitive Psychology – Spelman College

Fall 2003 – Psychology of Learning – Spelman College

Spring 2004 – Cognitive Psychology – Spelman College

Spring 2004 – Psychology of Learning – Spelman College

Fall 2004 – Cognitive Psychology – Spelman College

Fall 2004 – Psychology of Learning – Spelman College

Spring 2005 – Cognitive Psychology – Spelman College

Spring 2005 – Psychology of Learning – Spelman College

Fall 2005 – Cognitive Psychology – Spelman College

Fall 2005 – Psychology of Learning – Spelman College

Spring 2006 – Cognitive Psychology – Spelman College

Spring 2006 – Psychology of Learning – Spelman College

Fall 2006 – Cognitive Psychology – Spelman College

Fall 2006 – Psychology of Learning – Spelman College

Spring 2007 – Cognitive Psychology – Spelman College

Spring 2007 – Psychology of Learning – Spelman College

Spring 2008 – Learning and Memory – Agnes Scott College (guest lecturer)

Fall 2009 – Cognitive Psychology - GSU

Spring 2009 – Learning and Memory – Agnes Scott College (guest lecturer)

Fall 2009 – Natural Science Aspects of Psychology - GSU

Spring 2010 – Natural Science Aspects of Psychology - GSU

 

Graduate Level:

 

Spring 2001 – Origins of Language – GSU (guest lecturer)

Fall 2005 – Principles of Learning – GSU (guest lecturer)

Spring 2005 – Cognitive Psychology – GSU (guest lecturer)

Summer 2006 - Computer Based Experiment Generation - GSU

 

CURRENT FUNDING:

Beran, M. J. (2004-2010). Comparative studies of numerical cognition in human and nonhuman primates. $200,200 (direct costs) from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Grant P01HD-38051.

Beran, M. J., Einstein, G. O., Evans, T. A., & Klein, E. D. (2009-2011). Comparative investigations of future-oriented cognitive processes. $400,523 (total costs) from the National Science Foundation – Grant BCS 0924811.

Beran, M. J. & Smith, J. D. (2010-2015). Metacognition in comparative perspective. $1,111,530 (total costs) from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Grant R01HD-061455.

Brosnan, S. F., Beran, M. J., & Wilson, B. J. (2007-2010). Collaborative research: Understanding strategic economic interactions in monkeys, apes, and humans. $514,658 (total costs) from the National Science Foundation. – Grant SES 0729244

Smith, J. D., & Beran, M. J. (2010-2015). Metacognition in comparative perspective. $224,640 (total costs) from the National Science Foundation – Grant BCS 0956993.

Washburn, D. A., Frishkoff, G., Owren, M. J., Beran, M. J., & Brosnan, S. F. (2010-2011). An ERP study of monkey responses to speech sounds. $32,000 (total costs) from the Language and Literacy Seed Grant Program, Georgia State University.

PREVIOUS FUNDING:

Pate, J. L., Beran, M. J., & Rumbaugh, D. M. (1999-2002). The emergence of symbolic processing in human and nonhuman primates. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. 

Smith, J. D., & Beran, M. J. (2006-2010). Metacognition as a precursor to self-consciousness: evolution, development, and epistemology. National Science Foundation - BCS 0634662 and European Science Foundation.

Williamson, R., Washburn, D. A., & Beran, M. J. (2008-2009).  The role of source evaluation in the capacity to learn language. Language and Literacy Seed Grant Program, Georgia State University.

 

Last updated:         September 3, 2010