Education & Professional History
Reed College, BA; Michigan State University, MA, PhD
University of Texas Medical Center, Neurobiology Dept, Sensory Sciences, Houston, TX |
Postdoctoral Fellowship (NIH INSRA) |
Cognitive and Perceptual Abilities of Avians and Primates, Anthony A. Wright, sponsor |
1987-1988 |
Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI |
Ph.D. |
Experimental Psychology, Mark Rilling, advisor |
June 1987 |
Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI |
M.A. |
Experimental Psychology, Mark Rilling, advisor |
Jan 1985 |
Reed College, Portland, OR |
B.A. |
Psychology, Allen Neuringer, advisor |
May 1982 |
At Carleton since 1988.
Highlights & Recent Activity
Endowed Chair: Laurence McKinley Gould Professor of the Natural Sciences and Psychology, Sept, 2016 – present.
APS Fellow status (Association for Psychological Science) for sustained and outstanding distinguished contributions to psychological science, awarded May 2013.
Walter D. Mink Outstanding Teacher Award by the Minnesota Psychological Association, awarded April 2010.
APA Fellow in Division 6 (American Psychological Association, Behavioral Neuroscience and Comparative Psychology), awarded Dec 2009.
Frank A. Beach Comparative Psychology Award for the best paper published in the Journal of Comparative Psychology in 2007. APA (American Psychological Association).
Distinguished Scholar (2004), Minnesota Psychological Association (MPA). Recognition of academic faculty for their research contributions to psychology.
Organizations & Scholarly Affiliations
Carleton College, Northfield, MN |
Laurence McKinley Gould Professor of Natural Sciences and Psychology |
Endowed Chair |
Sept, 2016 – present. |
Carleton College, Northfield, MN |
Director, one 3-year term, one 2-year term |
Neuroscience |
Sept 2007 – 2010; July 2012 – Sept 2014. |
Carleton College, Northfield, MN |
Full Professor |
Psychology |
Sept 2001 – present. |
APA, Washington, DC |
Consulting Editor |
Journal of Comparative Psychology |
July 2008 – present. |
Carleton College, Northfield, MN |
Chair of Dept, two 3-year terms |
Psychology |
Sept 1995-July 2001 |
Carleton College, Northfield, MN |
Associate Professor |
Psychology |
Sept 1994 – Aug 2001 |
Carleton College, Northfield, MN |
Assistant Professor |
Psychology |
Sep 1988 – Aug 1994 |
International Conference on Comparative Aspects of Cognitive Science, Aix-en-Provence, France |
Summer Lecturer and Presenter |
Animal Cognition |
July, 1992 |
Harvard University |
Visiting Professor, Seminar Participant |
Animal Choice |
Sept 1991-Dec 1991 |
University of Texas Medical Center, Neurobiology Dept, Sensory Sciences Area, Houston, TX |
Postdoctoral Fellow, NIH INSRA Award (3-year award) |
Avian and Primate Cognition |
Sept 1987 – Aug 1988 |
Current Courses
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Fall 2021
PSYC 210:
Psychology of Learning and Memory
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PSYC 211:
Laboratory Research Methods in Learning and Memory
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PSYC 392:
Independent Research
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Winter 2022
NEUR 395:
Neuroscience Capstone Seminar
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PSYC 291:
Independent Study
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PSYC 371:
Evolutionary and Developmental Trends in Cognition
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PSYC 392:
Independent Research
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PSYC 400:
Integrative Exercise
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Spring 2022
PSYC 110:
Principles of Psychology
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Fall 2022
PSYC 110:
Principles of Psychology
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PSYC 367:
Neuropsychology of Aging
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PSYC 391:
Independent Study
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Winter 2023
PSYC 210:
Psychology of Learning and Memory
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PSYC 211:
Laboratory Research Methods in Learning and Memory
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PSYC 400:
Integrative Exercise
Courses Taught
Psy 110, Principles of Psychology (Spring 2022)
Psy 126, Advanced Methods in Data Analyses
Psy 200/201, Methods in Data Analyses (W 2021)
Psy 210/211, Psychology of Learning and Memory; Laboratory in Learning and Memory (W 2023)
Psy 212, Comparative Cognition
Psy 299, Junior Colloquium
Psy 300, Research Collaborative Seminar (Spring 2024)
Psy 365, Animal Models of Human Behavior
Psy 366, Cognitive Neuroscience (Winter 2024)
Psy 367, Neuropsychology of Aging (last taught Fall 2022)
Psy 371, Developmental and Evolutionary Trends in Human Cognition (last taught Winter 2022)
CGST 396, Cognitive Science Comps
Psy 398, Senior Colloquium
Psy 397, Senior Tutorial
Psy 391/92, Independent Studies (taught 2021-2022)
Neur 395, Neuroscience Capstone Seminar (last taught Winter 2022)
Current Courses
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Fall 2021
PSYC 210:
Psychology of Learning and Memory
-
PSYC 211:
Laboratory Research Methods in Learning and Memory
-
PSYC 392:
Independent Research
-
Winter 2022
NEUR 395:
Neuroscience Capstone Seminar
-
PSYC 291:
Independent Study
-
PSYC 371:
Evolutionary and Developmental Trends in Cognition
-
PSYC 392:
Independent Research
-
PSYC 400:
Integrative Exercise
-
Spring 2022
PSYC 110:
Principles of Psychology
-
Fall 2022
PSYC 110:
Principles of Psychology
-
PSYC 367:
Neuropsychology of Aging
-
PSYC 391:
Independent Study
-
Winter 2023
PSYC 210:
Psychology of Learning and Memory
-
PSYC 211:
Laboratory Research Methods in Learning and Memory
-
PSYC 400:
Integrative Exercise
*= indicates undergraduate or alumnus author in publication!
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Neiworth, J. J., London, J. M., Flynn, M. J., *Rupert, D. D., *Alldritt, O., & *Hyde, C. (2017). Artificial grammar learning in tamarins (Saguinus oedipus) in varying stimulus contexts. Journal of comparative psychology (Washington, D.C. : 1983), 131(2), 128–138. https://doi.org/10.1037/com0000066
Neiworth, J. J., *Whillock, K. M., *Kim, S. H., *Greenberg, J. R., *Jones, K. B., *Patel, A. R., *Steefel-Moore, D. L., *Shaw, A. J., *Rupert, D. D., *Gauer, J. L., & *Kudura, A. G. (2014). Gestalt principle use in college students, children with autism, toddlers (Homo sapiens), and cotton top tamarins (Saguinus oedipus). Journal of comparative psychology (Washington, D.C. : 1983), 128(2), 188–198. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0034840
Neiworth J. J. (2013). Chasing sounds. Behavioural processes, 93, 111–115. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2012.11.009
Neiworth, J. J. (2009). Thinking About Me: How social awareness evolved. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 18(3), 143–147. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8721.2009.01625.x
Neiworth, J. J., *Johnson, E. T., *Whillock, K., *Greenberg, J., & *Brown, V. (2009). Is a sense of inequity an ancestral primate trait? Testing social inequity in cotton top tamarins (Saguinus oedipus). Journal of comparative psychology (Washington, D.C. : 1983), 123(1), 10–17. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0012662
Neiworth, J. J., *Hassett, J. M., & *Sylvester, C. J. (2007). Face processing in humans and new world monkeys: the influence of experiential and ecological factors. Animal cognition, 10(2), 125–134. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-006-0045-4
Neiworth, J. J., *Gleichman, A. J., *Olinick, A. S., & *Lamp, K. E. (2006). Global and local processing in adult humans (Homo sapiens), 5-year-old children (Homo sapiens), and adult cotton-top tamarins (Saguinus oedipus). Journal of comparative psychology (Washington, D.C. : 1983), 120(4), 323–330. https://doi.org/10.1037/0735-7036.120.4.323
Neiworth, J. J., *Parsons, R. R., & *Hassett, J. M. (2004). A test of the generality of perceptually based categories found in infants: attentional differences toward natural kinds by New World monkeys. Developmental science, 7(2), 185–193. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7687.2004.00337.x
Neiworth, J. J., *Steinmark, E., *Basile, B. M., *Wonders, R., *Steely, F., & *DeHart, C. (2003). A test of object permanence in a new-world monkey species, cotton top tamarins (Saguinus oedipus). Animal cognition, 6(1), 27–37. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-003-0162-2
Neiworth, J. J., *Burman, M. A., *Basile, B. M., & *Lickteig, M. T. (2002). Use of experimenter-given cues in visual co-orienting and in an object-choice task by a new world monkey species, cotton top tamarins (Saguinus oedipus). Journal of comparative psychology (Washington, D.C. : 1983), 116(1), 3–11. https://doi.org/10.1037/0735-7036.116.1.3
Neiworth, J. J., *Anders, S. L., & *Parsons, R. R. (2001). Tracking responses related to self-recognition: a frequency comparison of responses to mirrors, photographs, and videotapes by cotton top tamanins (Saguinus oedipus). Journal of comparative psychology (Washington, D.C. : 1983), 115(4), 432–438.
Wright, A. A., Rivera, J. J., Hulse, S. H., Shyan, M., & Neiworth, J. J. (2000). Music perception and octave generalization in rhesus monkeys. Journal of experimental psychology. General, 129(3), 291–307. https://doi.org/10.1037//0096-3445.129.3.291
Neiworth, J.J. (1995). The integration of content with context: Spatiotemporal encoding and episodic memories in people and animals. In H.L. Roitblat & J. Meyer Arcady (Eds), Comparative Approaches to Cognitive Science, MIT Press.
Neiworth, J. J., & Wright, A. A. (1994). Monkeys (Macaca mulatta) learn category matching in a nonidentical same-different task. Journal of experimental psychology. Animal behavior processes, 20(4), 429–435.
Neiworth, J.J. (1992). Cognitive aspects of movement estimation: A study of imagery in animals. In W. K. Honig and J.G. Fetterman (Eds.), Cognitive aspects of stimulus control, Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Rilling, M. E., & Neiworth, J. J. (1991). How animals use images. Science progress, 75(298 Pt 3-4), 439–452.
Wright, A. A., Cook, R. G., Rivera, J. J., Shyan, M. R., Neiworth, J. J., & Jitsumori, M. (1990). Naming, rehearsal, and interstimulus interval effects in memory processing. Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition, 16(6), 1043–1059. https://doi.org/10.1037//0278-7393.16.6.1043
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