Michael J. Beran

Georgia State University — United States

Psychology · Social Sciences

53h-index8.5kcitations415works0.52yr avg
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Research Topics

Child and Animal Learning Development(157), Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills(93), Memory and Neural Mechanisms(81), Primate Behavior and Ecology(77), Behavioral and Psychological Studies(37)

Publications413 total

Ready Player One? Virtual environments as a tool for studying spatial cognition in nonhuman primates.
Journal of comparative psychology·2025
Reimagining the Vividness of Visual Imagery Questionnaire as a single-item screener for aphantasia
2025Open Access
Will monkeys wager differently as a function of stimulus fluency or when making immediate versus delayed judgements of memory?
Psihologijske teme·2025Open Access
One smell, two smells, intermixed, combined, or queued smells: What training procedure promotes the best generalization of odor detection by dogs?
Journal of comparative psychology·2025
Cognitive offloading by children in perceptual discrimination tasks
Cognitive Development·2025· 2 cited
Object-Based Warping During Distance Discriminations by Rhesus Monkeys (Macaca mulatta) and Capuchin Monkeys (Sapajus apella)
Animal Behavior and Cognition·2024Open Access
Monkeys overestimate connected arrays in a relative quantity task: A reverse connectedness illusion
Attention Perception & Psychophysics·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Guatemalan beaded lizards (Helodermatidae: Heloderma charlesbogerti) navigate and follow a scent trail in maze tasks.
Journal of comparative psychology·2024· 2 cited
Fins, feathers, fingers, and finding an explanation for the puzzle of ephemeral rewards.
Journal of comparative psychology·2024Open Access
For the sake of curiosity: Humans but not capuchins (Sapajus apella) collect counterfactual information on a computerized gambling task
Animal Behavior and Cognition·2024Open Access
There’s “magic” in comparative cognition
Learning & Behavior·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
No evidence of attentional bias toward threatening conspecific and allospecific faces in capuchin monkeys (Sapajus [Cebus] apella) using a dot-probe task.
Journal of comparative psychology·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Maze runners: monkeys show restricted Arabic numeral summation during computerized two-arm maze performance
Animal Cognition·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) with better task-based delay of gratification skills are rated as less impulsive, more agreeable, and smarter.
Journal of comparative psychology·2024Open Access
Editorial.
Journal of comparative psychology·2024
On parrots, delay of gratification, executive function, and how sometimes we do the best we can.
Journal of comparative psychology·2024
Habitual prospective memory in preschool children
PLoS ONE·2023· 1 citedOpen Access
Studies of Primate Metacognition are Relevant to Determining What Form Introspection Could Take in Different Intelligent Systems
Journal of Consciousness Studies·2023
Review for "Real-world implications of aphantasia: episodic recall of eyewitnesses with aphantasia is less complete but no less accurate than typical imagers"
2023
Review for "Real-world implications of aphantasia: episodic recall of eyewitnesses with aphantasia is less complete but no less accurate than typical imagers"
2023
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Frequent Co-authors

J. David Smith(16), Theodore A. Evans(12), David A. Washburn(7), Audrey E. Parrish(6), Bonnie M. Perdue(6), Justin J. Couchman(5), Sarah F. Brosnan(5), Mariana V. C. Coutinho(4), Joshua S. Redford(3), Joseph Boomer(3), Duane M. Rumbaugh(3), Emily H. Harris(3), Timothy M. Flemming(2), Catherine F. Talbot(2), Susan P. Lambeth(2), Steven J. Schapiro(2), Bart J. Wilson(2), Matthew J. Crossley(2), Barbara A. Church(2), F. Gregory Ashby(2)