Epernicus: Michael J Beran, Ph.D.

Michael J Beran, Ph.D.

Position:
Senior Research Scientist

Language Research Center

Department of Psychology

Georgia State University (Atlanta, GA)
Degrees:

Ph.D., Psychology, Georgia State University (Atlanta, GA)

M.A., Psychology, Georgia State University (Atlanta, GA)

B.A., Psychology, Oglethorpe University (Atlanta, GA)
Past Advisors:

David A Washburn (as Graduate Student - Ph.D.)

Duane M. Rumbaugh (as Graduate Student - Masters)
Research:
I am a Senior Research Scientist at the Language Research Center of Georgia State University in Atlanta, GA.

My research interests focus primarily on numerical abilities and other aspects of cognition in nonhuman primates. In particular, I study counting and other mathematical skills in the chimpanzees, capuchin monkeys, and rhesus monkeys at the Language Research Center. However, I also have conducted studies on delay of gratification, metacognition, long-term memory, language acquisition, planning, strategic cooperation, and object permanence in apes and monkeys.
Honors:
2008 APA Fellow - Division 3

2007 APA Fellow - Division 6

2005 Brenda A. Milner Award, Division 6, APA

2002 Outstanding Psychology Graduate Student Award, Georgia State University

2002-2006 Rumbaugh Fellowship, Georgia State University

1999 Bailey Wade Memorial Award, Georgia State University

1998 Bailey Wade Memorial Award, Georgia State University

1997 Pi Gamma Mu, The International Honor Society in Social Science

1995 Psi Chi, The National Honor Society in Psychology

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Michael Beran's Publications (42)

The psychological organization of "uncertainty" responses and "middle" responses: a dissociation in capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella).
Beran MJ, Smith JD, Coutinho MV, Boomer J, Couchman JJ

Journal of experimental psychology. Animal behavior processes. 2009 Jul;35(3):371-81
Rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) adaptively monitor uncertainty while multi-tasking.
Smith JD, Redford JS, Beran MJ, Washburn DA

Animal cognition. 2009 Jun 13
Trading behavior between conspecifics in chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes.
Brosnan SF, Beran MJ

Journal of comparative psychology (Washington, D.C. : 1983). 2009 May;123(2):181-94
Memory for "what", "where", and "when" information in rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta).
Hoffman ML, Beran MJ, Washburn DA

Journal of experimental psychology. Animal behavior processes. 2009 Apr;35(2):143-52
Delay of gratification by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in working and waiting situations.
Beran MJ, Evans TA

Behavioural processes. 2009 Feb;80(2):177-81
Quantity judgments of sequentially presented food items by capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella).
Evans TA, Beran MJ, Harris EH, Rice DF

Animal cognition. 2009 Jan;12(1):97-105
When in doubt, chimpanzees rely on estimates of past reward amounts.
Beran MJ, Evans TA, Harris EH

Proceedings. Biological sciences / The Royal Society. 2009 Jan 22;276(1655):309-14
The comparative study of metacognition: sharper paradigms, safer inferences.
Smith JD, Beran MJ, Couchman JJ, Coutinho MV

Psychonomic bulletin & review. 2008 Aug;15(4):679-91
Quantity representation in children and rhesus monkeys: linear versus logarithmic scales.
Beran MJ, Johnson-Pynn JS, Ready C

Journal of experimental child psychology. 2008 Jul;100(3):225-33
An efficient computerized testing method for the capuchin monkey (Cebus apella): adaptation of the LRC-CTS to a socially housed nonhuman primate species.
Evans TA, Beran MJ, Chan B, Klein ED, Menzel CR

Behavior research methods. 2008 May;40(2):590-6
Perception of Food Amounts by Chimpanzees Based on the Number, Size, Contour Length and Visibility of Items.
Beran MJ, Evans TA, Harris EH

Animal behaviour. 2008 May;75(5):1793-1802
What meaning means for same and different: Analogical reasoning in humans (Homo sapiens), chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), and rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta).
Flemming TM, Beran MJ, Thompson RK, Kleider HM, Washburn DA

Journal of comparative psychology (Washington, D.C. : 1983). 2008 May;122(2):176-85
Ordinal judgments of symbolic stimuli by capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella) and rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta): the effects of differential and nondifferential reward.
Beran MJ, Harris EH, Evans TA, Klein ED, Chan B, Flemming TM, Washburn DA

Journal of comparative psychology (Washington, D.C. : 1983). 2008 Feb;122(1):52-61
Summation and quantity judgments of sequentially presented sets by capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella).
Beran MJ, Evans TA, Leighty KA, Harris EH, Rice D

American journal of primatology. 2008 Feb;70(2):191-4
The evolutionary and developmental foundations of mathematics.
Beran MJ

PLoS biology. 2008 Feb;6(2):e19
Capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella) succeed in a test of quantity conservation.
Beran MJ

Animal cognition. 2008 Jan;11(1):109-16
Monkeys (Macaca mulatta and Cebus apella) track, enumerate, and compare multiple sets of moving items.
Beran MJ

Journal of experimental psychology. Animal behavior processes. 2008 Jan;34(1):63-74
Chimpanzee autarky.
Brosnan SF, Grady MF, Lambeth SP, Schapiro SJ, Beran MJ

PloS one. 2008;3(1):e1518
Chimpanzees use self-distraction to cope with impulsivity.
Evans TA, Beran MJ

Biology letters. 2007 Dec 22;3(6):599-602
A Stroop-like effect in color-naming of color-word lexigrams by a chimpanzee (Pan troglodyte).
Beran MJ, Washburn DA, Rumbaugh DM

The Journal of general psychology. 2007 Apr;134(2):217-28
Delay of gratification and delay maintenance by rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta).
Evans TA, Beran MJ

The Journal of general psychology. 2007 Apr;134(2):199-216
Ordinal-list integration for symbolic, arbitrary, and analog stimuli by rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta).
Harris EH, Beran MJ, Washburn DA

The Journal of general psychology. 2007 Apr;134(2):183-97
Rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) select Arabic numerals or visual quantities corresponding to a number of sequentially completed maze trials.
Harris EH, Washburn DA, Beran MJ, Sevcik RA

Learning & behavior : a Psychonomic Society publication. 2007 Feb;35(1):53-9
Disconnect in concept learning by rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta): judgment of relations and relations-between-relations.
Flemming TM, Beran MJ, Washburn DA

Journal of experimental psychology. Animal behavior processes. 2007 Jan;33(1):55-63
Rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) enumerate large and small sequentially presented sets of items using analog numerical representations.
Beran MJ

Journal of experimental psychology. Animal behavior processes. 2007 Jan;33(1):42-54

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