Current Funding
Beran, M. J., Church, B. A., Perdue, B. M., Parrish, A. E., & Smith, J. D. (2021-2025). Cognitive self-regulation and metacognition in comparative and developmental perspective. $692,684 (total costs) from the National Science Foundation – Grant BCS2043667.
Smith, J. D., Church, B. A., & Beran, M. J. (2021-2025). Towards a better understanding of explicit-declarative learning in humans and non-human primates. $682,612 (total funding) from the National Science Foundation – Grant BCS2116968.
Previous Funding
Kelly, A., & Beran, M. J. (2022 – 2023). Testing the limits of prospective memory through monetary incentives. $28,000 (total funding) from the GSU Brains and Behavior Seed Grant program.
Beran, M. J., & Offutt, H. (2020-2021). The prevalence of aphantasia and its relation to cognitive competence. $30,000 from Georgia State University – Brains and Behavior Seed Grant.
Beran, M. J., Church, B. A., Perdue, B. M., Parrish, A. E., & Smith, J. D. (2016-2020). Confidence judgments and metacognition in comparative and developmental perspective. $592,087 (total costs) from the National Science Foundation – Grant BCS 1552405.
Beran, M. J., Brosnan, S. F., & Williamson, R. (2010-2017). The emergence of self-control: Comparative behavioral and neurobiological assessments. $455,880 (total costs) from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development – Grant P01HD060563.
Brosnan, S. F., Beran, M. J., & Shapiro, S. J. (2014-2018). Expectations about reward outcomes. $394,563 (total costs) from the National Science Foundation – Grant SES 1425216.
Brosnan, S. F., Beran, M. J., Wilson, B. J., & Schapiro, S. J. (2017-2020). Collaborative Research: Impacts of social context and ecology on strategic decisions in dynamic interactions. $415,292 (total costs) from the National Science Foundation. Grant SES-1658867.
Washburn, D. A., Conway, C., & Beran, M. J. (2017-2018). Training monkeys to self-restrain for studies of brain-behavior relations. $29,700 from Georgia State University – Brains and Behavior Seed Grant.
Beran, M. J., & Parrish, A. E. (2016-2017). Metacognitive confidence judgments during solitary and group decision-making. $19,525 from Georgia State University – Research Initiation Grant.
Beran, M. J. & Smith, J. D. (2010-2016). Metacognition in comparative perspective. $1,059,854 (total costs) from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Grant R01HD061455.
Brosnan, S. F., Beran, M. J., & Wilson, B. (2011-2016). Primate and human social decision making. $475,217 (total costs) from the National Science Foundation – Grant SES 1123897.
Brosnan, S. F., Beran, M. J., Hopkins, W. D., & Goursaud, A. P. (2013-2016). The prosocial brain: Evolution of the human capacity for empathy, compassion and cooperation. $743,661 (total costs) from the Templeton Foundation.
Smith, J. D., & Beran, M. J. (2010-2015). Metacognition in comparative perspective. $224,640 (total costs) from the National Science Foundation – Grant BCS 0956993.
Beran, M. J., Einstein, G. O., Evans, T. A., & Klein, E. D. (2009-2013). Comparative investigations of future-oriented cognitive processes. $400,523 (total costs) from the National Science Foundation – Grant BCS 0924811.
Brosnan, S. F., Beran, M. J., & Wilson, B. J. (2007-2011). Collaborative research: Understanding strategic economic interactions in monkeys, apes, and humans. $514,658 (total costs) from the National Science Foundation. – Grant SES 0729244
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.
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.
Smith, J. D., & Beran, M. J. (2006-2010). Metacognition as a precursor to self-consciousness: Evolution, development, and epistemology. $215,881 (total costs) from the National Science Foundation and European Science Foundation. Grant BCS – 0634662.
Williamson, R., Washburn, D. A., & Beran, M. J. (2008-2009). The role of source evaluation in the capacity to learn language. $16,000 (total costs) from the Language and Literacy Seed Grant Program, Georgia State University.
Pate, J. L., Beran, M. J., & Rumbaugh, D. M. (1999-2004). The emergence of symbolic processing in human and nonhuman primates. $139,641 (direct costs) from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Grant PO1-HD38051.