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Overview

Michael J. Beran is a researcher affiliated with Georgia State University in the United States. Their work primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Neuroscience, with specific focus on Cognitive Neuroscience and Developmental and Educational Psychology. Their research further encompasses Social Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and areas involving Statistics and Probability.

The main topics in Michael J. Beran's research include:

  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Primate Behavior and Ecology
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills
  • Face Recognition and Perception
  • Multisensory perception and integration

Michael J. Beran has contributed numerous papers to several scientific journals. The frequent venues for their publications include:

  • Journal of comparative psychology
  • Animal Behavior and Cognition
  • Learning & Behavior
  • Animal Cognition
  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Notable recent papers include:

  • "The evolution of quantitative sensitivity," 2021, published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "Assessing the perception of face pareidolia in children (Homo sapiens), rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta), and capuchin monkeys (Sapajus apella)," 2022, Journal of comparative psychology
  • "Assessing aphantasia prevalence and the relation of self-reported imagery abilities and memory task performance," 2023, Consciousness and Cognition
  • "Words matter: Reflections on language projects with chimpanzees and their implications," 2020, American Journal of Primatology
  • "Editorial: The Value and Status of Replications in Animal Behavior and Cognition Research," 2020, Animal Behavior and Cognition

Frequent co-authors of Michael J. Beran include:

  • Audrey E. Parrish
  • Maisy D. Englund
  • Bonnie M. Perdue
  • Elizabeth Haseltine
  • Andrew Kelly

Michael J. Beran was recognized as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 2008.

Best Publications

  • Foundations of Metacognition

    Michael J. Beran;Johannes L. Brandl;Josef Perner;Joëlle Proust

  • Summation and numerousness judgments of sequentially presented sets of items by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).

    Michael J. Beran

  • Rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) enumerate large and small sequentially presented sets of items using analog numerical representations.

    Michael J. Beran

  • Chimpanzees use self-distraction to cope with impulsivity.

    Theodore A Evans;Michael J Beran

  • Chimpanzees Remember the Results of One-by-One Addition of Food Items to Sets Over Extended Time Periods

    Michael J. Beran;Mary M. Beran

  • Bears ‘count’ too: quantity estimation and comparison in black bears, Ursus americanus

    Jennifer Vonk;Michael J. Beran

  • Implicit and explicit categorization: a tale of four species.

    J. David Smith;Mark E. Berg;Robert G. Cook;Matthew S. Murphy

  • Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) respond to nonvisible sets after one-by-one addition and removal of items.

    Michael J. Beran

  • The comparative study of metacognition: sharper paradigms, safer inferences.

    J. David Smith;Michael J. Beran;Justin J. Couchman;Mariana V. C. Coutinho

  • Maintenance of Self-Imposed Delay of Gratification by Four Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and an Orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus)

    Michael J. Beran

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

    J. David Smith;Michael J. Beran;Joshua S. Redford;David A. Washburn

  • Animal Metacognition: A Tale of Two Comparative Psychologies

    J. David Smith;Justin J. Couchman;Michael J. Beran

  • Establishing an infrastructure for collaboration in primate cognition research.

    Many Primates;Drew M. Altschul;Michael J. Beran;Manuel Bohn;Manuel Bohn

  • Delay of gratification in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).

    Michael J. Beran;E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh;James L. Pate;Duane M. Rumbaugh

  • Maintenance of delay of gratification by four chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): the effects of delayed reward visibility, experimenter presence, and extended delay intervals.

    Michael J. Beran;Theodore A. Evans

  • Implicit and explicit category learning by macaques (Macaca mulatta) and humans (Homo sapiens).

    J. David Smith;Michael J. Beran;Matthew J. Crossley;Joseph. T. Boomer

  • "Constructive" enumeration by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) on a computerized task.

    Michael J. Beran;Duane M. Rumbaugh

  • The Highs and Lows of Theoretical Interpretation in Animal-Metacognition Research

    J. David Smith;Justin J. Couchman;Michael J. Beran

  • Information seeking by rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) and capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella).

    Michael J. Beran;J. David Smith

  • Rhesus macaques (macaca mulatta) monitor uncertainty during numerosity judgments.

    Michael J. Beran;J. David Smith;Joshua S. Redford;David A. Washburn

  • Putting the elephant back in the herd: elephant relative quantity judgments match those of other species.

    Bonnie M. Perdue;Catherine F. Talbot;Adam M. Stone;Michael J. Beran

  • THEORETICAL AND REVIEW A RTICLES The comparative study of metacognition: Sharper paradigms, safer inferences

    J. David Smith;Michael J. Beran;Justin J. Couchman;Mariana V. C. C Outinho

Frequent Co-Authors

David A. Washburn
David A. Washburn Georgia State University
J. David Smith
J. David Smith Georgia State University
Duane M. Rumbaugh
Duane M. Rumbaugh Georgia State University
Sarah F. Brosnan
Sarah F. Brosnan Georgia State University
Christian Agrillo
Christian Agrillo University of Padua
Dirk Hermans
Dirk Hermans KU Leuven
Josef Perner
Josef Perner University of Salzburg
E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh
E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh Iowa Primate Learning Sanctuary
William D. Hopkins
William D. Hopkins University of Wisconsin–Madison
F. Gregory Ashby
F. Gregory Ashby University of California, Santa Barbara

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