Julie Neiworth

Education & Professional History

Reed College, BA; Michigan State University, MA, PhD

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

Funded Federal Grants: 1987-present.

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)

*= indicates undergraduate or alumnus author in publication!

Neiworth, J.J., Balaban, M.T., *Wagner, K., *Carlsen, A., *Min, S., *Kwon,Y.I.C., & *Rieth, I. (2022). A modified version of the dimensional change card sort task tests cognitive flexibility in children (Homo sapiens) and cotton top tamarins (Saguinus oedipus). Journal of comparative psychology (Washington DC: 1983), online. https://doi.org.10.1037/com0000312.

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

Wright, A.A., Cook, R.G., Shyan, M.R., Neiworth, J.J., Emmerton, J., Sands, S., Rivera, J.J., & Delius, J. (1988). Concept learning by pigeons and monkeys. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 26, 6, 505.

Neiworth, J. J., & Rilling, M. E. (1987). A method for studying imagery in animals. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 13(3), 203–214. https://doi.org/10.1037/0097-7403.13.3.203

Rilling, M. E., & Neiworth, J. J. (1987). Theoretical and methodological considerations for the study of imagery in animals. Learning and Motivation, 18(1), 57–79. https://doi.org/10.1016/0023-9690(87)90023-3

Neiworth, J.J. (1987). Investigating an Imagery Process in Pigeons. A dissertation received September, 1987, in the department of Psychology, Michigan State University.

Neiworth, J.J., & Rilling, M.E. (1986). Toward a method for studying imagery in pigeons. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 24, 5, 347.

Rilling, M. E., & Neiworth, J. J. (1986). Comparative cognition: A general processes approach. In D. F. Kendrick, M. E. Rilling, & M. R. Denny (Eds.), Comparative cognition and neuroscience. Theories of animal memory (p. 19–33). Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.

Neuringer, A.J., Balaban, M.T., Neiworth, J.J., & Rhodes, D. (1982). Punishment: Why it works and why not. Behavior Analysis Letters, 2,(5), 286-287.

Home Brewing, Walking and Hiking, Music, Cooking, Baking.