Recent and Upcoming Presentations

Jonkoski, D., Syed, K., Haseltine, E., Friedlein, K., McKeon, J., Jackson, B., & Beran, M. J. (April, 2024). Patience is a virtue: Delay of gratification by capuchin monkeys. Presentation at the Georgia State University Undergraduate Research Conference, Atlanta, GA.

Sudhakar, M., Haseltine, E., McKeon, J., Sanchez, A., Mayerhoff, S., Jackson, B., & Beran, M. J. (April, 2024). Cognitive offloading by preschool children in a computerized task. Presentation at the Georgia State University Undergraduate Research Conference, Atlanta, GA.

Syed, K., Friedlein, K., Jonkoski, D., Haseltine, E., McKeon, J., Sanchez, A., Vera, R., Jackson, B., & Beran, M. J. (April, 2024). Rhesus monkeys and capuchin monkeys show little evidence of the connectedness illusion during relative quantity judgments. Presentation at the Georgia State University Undergraduate Research Conference, Atlanta, GA.

Beran, M. J. (April, 2024). Birds retained for future gain, cephalopods from temptation refrained, and the “magic” in comparative cognition explained. Paper presented at the 31st Annual International Conference on Comparative Cognition, Albuquerque, NM.

Haseltine, E. L., Parrish, A. E., Englund, M. D., Agrillo, C., & Beran, M. J. (April, 2024). Rhesus monkeys and capuchin monkeys do not show evidence of the connectedness illusion during relative quantity judgments. Poster presented at the 31st Annual International Conference on Comparative Cognition, Albuquerque, NM

McKeon, J. W., & Beran, M. J. (April, 2024). No evidence for self-directed learning, but rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) and capuchins (Cebus s. apella) differ in preferred learning strategies. Poster presented at the 31st Annual International Conference on Comparative Cognition, Albuquerque, NM. [Winner, Ron Weisman Outstanding Student Presentation Award.]

Rodriguez, S., Gray, S. L., Beran, M. J., & Qadri, M. A. (April, 2024). Organized behavior: The effect of joystick usage on human’s cognitive control during multi-target multi-dimensional visual search. Poster presented at the 31st Annual International Conference on Comparative Cognition, Albuquerque, NM.

Welsh, C., Riley, M., Kelly, A., Beran, M. J., Perdue, B., & Parrish, A. E. (March, 2024). Metacognitive offloading in children – An image rotation task. Poster presented at the 70th annual meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association, Orlando, FL.

Beran, M. J., Kelly, A. J., Perdue, B. M., & Parrish, A. E. (November, 2023). Image rotations as a (meta)cognitive offloading strategy by children. Paper presented at the 64th annual meeting of the Psychonomics Society. San Francisco, CA.

Haseltine, E., & Beran, M. J. (November, 2023). The lure of ‘what if’: Do monkeys seek information about alternative outcomes? Poster presented at the 64th annual meeting of the Psychonomics Society. San Francisco, CA. 

Kelly, A., Simakova, U., Boland, A., Aguilar, J., Gilkes, C., & Beran, M. J. (November, 2023). Exploring the influence of motivation on prospective memory via pupillometry. Poster presented at the 64th annual meeting of the Psychonomics Society. San Francisco, CA.

McKeon, J., & Beran, M. J. (November, 2023). Self-directed learning in nonhuman primates. Poster presented at the 64th annual meeting of the Psychonomics Society. San Francisco, CA.

Friedlein, K., & Beran, M. J. (November, 2023). Prospective and retrospective metamemory wagers by rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) and capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella). Presentation at the Georgia State University Undergraduate Research Conference, Atlanta, GA.

Jonkoski, D., Haseltine, E., Friedlein, K., McKeon, J., Jackson, B., Vera, R., Syed, K., & Beran, M. J. (November, 2023). Patience is a virtue: Delay of gratification by capuchin monkeys. Presentation at the Georgia State University Undergraduate Research Conference, Atlanta, GA.

Beran, M. J. (May, 2023). Knowing one’s own mind: Metacognitive monkeys, confident chimpanzees. Keynote address at the “Ethology: Past, Present, and Future” workshop for the E. Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture, Sicily, Italy.

Proctor, D., Beran, M. J. & Taylor, D. (April, 2023). Many Primates – A large-scale collaboration to better understand primate cognition. Paper presented at the 30th Annual International Conference on Comparative Cognition. Melbourne, FL.

Gray, S. L., Qadri, M. A. J., & Beran, M. J. (April, 2023). Attentional strategies by capuchin monkeys in multi-dimensional visual search. Paper presented at the 30th Annual International Conference on Comparative Cognition. Melbourne, FL.

Haseltine, E. L., & Beran, M. J. (April, 2023). The lure of ‘what if’: Do multiple species seek information about alternative past events? Poster presented at the 30th Annual International Conference on Comparative Cognition. Melbourne, FL.

Mayerhoff, S., Babb, M., Beran, M. J., & Brosnan, S. F. (April, 2023). File, save, forget: Cognitive offloading in non-human primates. Poster presented at the 30th Annual International Conference on Comparative Cognition. Melbourne, FL.

McKeon, J., & Beran, M. J. (April, 2023). Self-directed learning in nonhuman primates. Poster presented at the 30th Annual International Conference on Comparative Cognition. Melbourne, FL.

McKeon, J., & Beran, M. J. (April, 2023). Self-directed learning in nonhuman primates. Poster presented at the 69th annual meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association. New Orleans, LA.

Friedlein, K., & Beran, M. J. (April, 2023). The role of stimulus fluency in prospective and retrospective metacognitive judgments by rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) and capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella). Poster presented at the 69th annual meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association. New Orleans, LA.