Parrish, A. E., Englund, M. D., Kelly, A. J., Perdue, B. M., Daley, A., Welsh, C., & Beran, M. J. (2025). Cognitive offloading by children in perceptual discrimination tasks. Cognitive Development, 73, 101537.

Beran, M. J. (2024). On parrots, delay of gratification, executive function, and how sometimes we do the best we can. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 138, 5-7.

 Beran, M. J. (2024). Fins, feathers, fingers, and finding an explanation for the puzzle of ephemeral rewards. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 138, 147-149.

Beran, M. J., Englund, M. D., Haseltine, E. L., Agrillo, C., & Parrish, A. E. (2024). Monkeys overestimate connected arrays in a relative quantity task: A reverse connectedness illusion. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 86, 2877-2887.

 Haseltine, E. L., & Beran, M. J. (2024). For the sake of curiosity: Humans but not capuchins (Sapajus apella) collect counterfactual information on a computerized gambling task. Animal Behavior and Cognition, 11, 252-269.

 Haseltine, E. L., & Beran, M. J. (2024). Maze runners: Monkeys show restricted Arabic numeral summation during computerized two-arm maze performance. Animal Cognition, 27, 23.

Hopkins, W. D., Cox, C. M., Latzman, R. D., & Beran, M. J. (2024). Chimpanzees with better task-based delay of gratification skills are rated as less impulsive, more agreeable and smarter. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 138, 203-210.

McKeon, E. J., Parrish, A. E., & Beran, M. J. (2024). Object-based warping during distance discriminations by rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) and capuchin monkeys (Sapajus apella). Animal Behavior and Cognition, 11, 349-360

Reilly, O. T., Benítez, M. E., Beran, M. J., Barber, S. J., Brosnan, S. F. (2024). 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, 138, 259-275.

Beran, M. J. (2023). I am as fooled as you are, say some primates…but only sometimes. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 137, 77-79. 

Beran, M. J. (2023). I’ll (not) take that: The reverse-reward contingency task as a test of self-control and inhibition. Learning and Behavior, 51, 9-14. 

Beran, M. J. (2023). Why do distractions sometimes aid self-control? Pigeons (Columba livia) highlight possible mechanisms underlying the distraction effects. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 137, 77-79.

Beran, M. J. (2023). Congratulations to Animal Cognition on its 50th birthday! Some thoughts on the last 50 years of animal cognition research. Animal Cognition, 26, 13-23. 

Beran, M. J., & Parrish, A. E. (2023). Consistently inconsistent perceptual illusions in nonhuman primates: The importance of individual differences. Animals, 13, 22.  https://doi.org/10.3390/ani13010022.  Full text

Flessert, M., Taubert, J., & Beran, M. J. (2023). Assessing the perception of face pareidolia in children (Homo sapiens), rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) and capuchin monkeys (Sapajus apella). Journal of Comparative Psychology, 137, 90-101. 

Kelly, A. J., Camden, A. A., Williams, M. C., Beran, M. J., & Perdue, B. M. (2023). Habitual prospective memory in preschool children. PLoS One, 18, e0293599. Full text

Kelly, A. J., Williams, M. C., Parrish, A. E., Perdue, B. M., Little, S., & Beran, M. J. (2023). Focality and prospective memory in preschool children. Journal of General Psychology, 150, 234-251. 

Englund, M. D., & Beran, M. J. (2022). No evidence of the choice overload effect in a computerized paradigm with rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) and capuchin monkeys (Sapajus apella). Behavioural Processes, 194, 104545. 

Englund, M. D., Whitham, W., Conway, C. M., Beran, M. J., & Washburn, D. A. (2022). Nonhuman primates learn adjacent dependencies but fail to learn nonadjacent dependencies in a statistical learning task with a salient cue. Learning and Behavior, 50, 242-253.