All Stories

  1. Too many eyes on the same prize? Why searching together but dividing attention shapes more effective collective foraging.

    Article • Journal of Comparative Psychology, July 2026, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Michael Beran, Michael Beran

  2. Does new evidence affect chimpanzees’ beliefs or expectations?

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology Animal Learning and Cognition, March 2026, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Michael Beran, Michael Beran

  3. Is it weird in here and does comparative cognition suffer from main-character syndrome?

    Article • Journal of Comparative Psychology, February 2026, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Michael Beran, Michael Beran

  4. Ready Player One? Virtual environments as a tool for studying spatial cognition in nonhuman primates.

    Article • Journal of Comparative Psychology, August 2025, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Michael Beran, Michael Beran

  5. One smell, two smells, intermixed, combined, or queued smells: What training procedure promotes the best generalization of odor detection by dogs?

    Article • Journal of Comparative Psychology, February 2025, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Michael Beran, Michael Beran

  6. Fins, feathers, fingers, and finding an explanation for the puzzle of ephemeral rewards.

    Article • Journal of Comparative Psychology, August 2024, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Michael Beran, Michael Beran

  7. On parrots, delay of gratification, executive function, and how sometimes we do the best we can.

    Article • Journal of Comparative Psychology, February 2024, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Michael Beran, Michael Beran

  8. Why do distractions sometimes aid self-control? Pigeons (Columba livia) highlight possible mechanisms underlying the distraction effect.

    Article • Journal of Comparative Psychology, August 2023, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Michael Beran, Michael Beran

  9. I am as fooled as you are, say some primates … but only sometimes.

    Article • Journal of Comparative Psychology, May 2023, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Michael Beran, Michael Beran

  10. Launch! Self-agency as a discriminative cue for humans (Homo sapiens) and monkeys (Macaca Mulatta).

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology General, September 2021, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Barbara Church, Michael Beran, Michael Beran

  11. The density bias: Capuchin monkeys (Sapajus apella) prefer densely arranged items in a food-choice task.

    Article • Journal of Comparative Psychology, May 2020, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Michael Beran, Michael Beran

  12. Divide and Conquer

    Article • Experimental Psychology (formerly Zeitschrift für Experimentelle Psychologie), July 2019, Hogrefe Publishing Group

    Michael Beran, Michael Beran

  13. Do monkeys show evidence of mental number line?

    Article • Journal of Comparative Psychology, March 2019, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Michael Beran, Michael Beran

  14. Mental Time Travel

    Article • January 2018, Elsevier

    Michael Beran, Michael Beran

  15. Worth Waiting For

    Article • January 2018, Elsevier

    Michael Beran, Michael Beran

  16. Is Self-Control Like a Muscle?

    Article • January 2018, Elsevier

    Michael Beran, Michael Beran

  17. Children’s Delay of Gratification

    Article • January 2018, Elsevier

    Michael Beran, Michael Beran

  18. Human Intertemporal Choices

    Article • January 2018, Elsevier

    Michael Beran, Michael Beran

  19. Charles R. Menzel

    Article • January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Michael Beran

  20. Delayed Gratification

    Article • January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Michael Beran, Michael Beran

  21. Michael J. Beran

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Michael Beran, Michael Beran

  22. Addition

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Michael Beran, Michael Beran

  23. Arabic Numerals

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Michael Beran

  24. Metacognition

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Michael Beran

  25. Mirror Self-Recognition

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Michael Beran

  26. Foundations of Metacognition

    Article • September 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Michael Beran, Michael Beran

  27. Animal Metacognition

    Article • March 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Michael Beran, Michael Beran

  28. Metacognition across Species

    Article • February 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Michael Beran, Michael Beran

  29. The Evolutionary and Developmental Foundations of Mathematics

    Article • PLoS Biology, February 2008, PLOS

    Michael Beran, Michael Beran

  30. Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) use markers to monitor the movement of a hidden item

    Article • Primates, August 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Michael Beran, Michael Beran

  31. TheRoots of Human Behavior are found in nonhuman primates

    Article • American Journal of Primatology, January 2004, Wiley

    Michael Beran