Julie J. Neiworth, Ph.D. Professor Department of Psychology Carleton College Northfield, Minnesota 55057-4025
Office Location: Olin Hall, Room 113 Phone: Office 507-222-4372, Laboratory 507-222-4504, Office Assistants 507-222-4380 email: jneiwort@carleton.edu FAX: 507-222-7005 Birth: 4-21-61, Aberdeen, WA

Recognition and Honors

Accepted a position as Consulting Editor for the Journal of Comparative Psychology, a peer-reviewed APA (American Psychological Association) journal, in June, 2008.

Received an award for the best paper published in the Journal of Comparative Psychology in 2007. The award, called the Frank A. Beach Comparative Psychology Award, is given by APA (American Psychological Association), by committee. The authors of the paper were Neiworth and Carleton alumni Amy Gleichman ('05), Annie Olinick ('04) and Kristen Lamp ('05), and the research compared perceptual processing in children and monkeys and found connections with deficits they exhibit and autism.

Awarded a grant from NIMH to conduct research to study monkeys as an animal model of autism ($207,059; 2006-2009). No invasive work is part of the research; the research identifies diagnostic tools and training in perceptual processing that may circumvent some autistic deficits. The award was made from the biological behavioral and neuroscience division, neurodevelopmental disorder, branch of NIMH.

Selected by Minnesota Psychological Association (MPA) as their Distinguished Scholar for 2004. The Distinguished Scholar program seeks to recognize academic faculty for their research contributions to psychology. Neiworth gave a 90-minute presentation on Thursday, May 6, 2004, 7:30 pm, entitled Significant Others: Testing the Awareness, Recognition, and Thinking of Primates Other than Humans at Macalester College, St Paul, MN and accepted the award.

Profession Positions (starting with current position)

APA, Washington, DC	Consulting Editor	Journal of Comparative Psychology	July 2008 - present.
Carleton College, Northfield, MN	Director	Neuroscience	Sept 2007 - 2010.
Carleton College, Northfield, MN	Full Professor	Psychology	Sept 2001 - present.
Carleton College, Northfield, MN	Chair of Dept	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 Univeristy	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

 

Education (starting with most recent degree)

University of Texas Medical Center, Neurobiology Dept, Sensory Sciences Area, Houston, TX	Postdoctoral Fellowship (NIH INSRA)	Cognitive and Perceptual Abilities of Avians and Primates, Anthony A. Wright, sponsor	Sept 1987 - Aug 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

Manuscripts in Progress

* indicates Carleton student or Carleton graduate author.

 

Neiworth, J.J. Reflecting on a social animal: How and whether primates think about themselves and others. Current Directions in Psychological Science [submitted by request of Editor, April, 2008].

Neiworth, J.J., Sonstegard, M.*, Lewis, A.*, Kudura, A.*, Whillock, K.*, & Gray, E.* What's in a number? Numeric assessment in tamarins. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes [in preparation].

Greenberg, J. & Neiworth, J.J. Competition inhibits cooperation in cotton top tamarins. Animal Behaviour, in preparation.

Neiworth, J.J., & Sawtell, S. What, where, and how many? Object identity in cotton top tamarins. Developmental Science, in preparation.

 

Publications

* indicates Carleton student or Carleton graduate author.

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1. Neiworth, J.J., Johnson, E. T.*, Whillock, K.*, Greenberg, J.*, & Brown, V*. (2008, in press) Is a sense of inequity an ancestral primate trait? Testing social inequity in cotton top tamarins (Saguinus oedipus). Journal of Comparative Psychology, pages not known yet.

 

2. Neiworth, J.J., Hassett, J.M*. and Sylvester, C.M.* (2007). Face processing in humans and new world monkeys: the influence of experiential and ecological factors. Animal Cognition, 10, 2, 125-134.

 

3. Neiworth, J.J., Gleichman, A*, Olinick, A.*, and Lamp, K.* (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, 120 (4), 323 - 330.

 

4. Neiworth, J.J., Parsons, R.R.* and 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.

 

5. Neiworth, J.J., Steinmark, E.*, Basile, B.M.*, Wonders, R.*, Steely, F.* and DeHart, C.*( 2003). A test of object permanence in a New World monkey species, cotton top tamarins (Saguinus oedipus). Animal Cognition, 6: 27-37.

 

6. Neiworth, J.J., Burman, M.A.*, Basile, B.M.*, and 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, 116, 3-11.

7. Neiworth, J.J., Anders, S.L.*, and Parsons, R.R.* (2001). Tracking responses related to self-recognition: A frequency comparison of responses to mirrors, photographs, and videotape of monkeys by cotton top tamarins (Saguinus oedipus). Journal of Comparative Psychology, 115, 432-438.

8. Wright, A.A., Rivera, J.J, Hulse, S.H. Shyan, M. & J.J. Neiworth (2000). Music perception and octave generalization in rhesus monkeys. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 129, (3), 291-307.

9. 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.

10. Neiworth, J.J. & Wright, A.A. (1994). Monkeys Macaca mulatta learn category matching in a nonidentical matching task. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 20 (4) , 429-435.

11. 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.

12. Rilling, M.E. & Neiworth, J.J. (1991). How animals use images. Science Progress, 75, 439-452.

13. 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), 11043-1059.

14. 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.

15. 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.

16. Rilling, M.E., & Neiworth, J.J. (1987). Theoretical and methodological considerations for the study of imagery in animals. Learning and Motivation,18, 57-79.

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

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

19. Rilling, M.E., & Neiworth, J.J. (1986). Comparative cognition: A general process approach. In D.F. Kendrick, M.E. Rilling, & M.R. Denney (Eds.), Theories of Animal Memory. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

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

Press Coverage

"Monkeys may tune into basic melodies", Science News, Week of Sept. 16, 2000; Vol. 158, No. 12. Authors: Wright, A.A., Rivera, J.J., Hulse, S., Shyan, M. & Neiworth, J.J. Click here to read news piece. Full text of published article is available from full reference (see # 7 above).

Conference Presentations

* indicates Carleton student or Carleton graduate author.

E. P. WIERTELAK1,2, J. NEIWORTH3, G. COUSENS1,2, S. DICKINSON4, G. MUIR4, C. OHNESORGE3, M. FERRAGAMO5, J. R. PRICHARD7, B. CURCHACK9, D. NELSON8, P. COSTELLO6, B. SHERMAN4, L. WICHLINSKI3, J. WOTTON6; 1Dept. of Psychology, 2Cognitive and Neurosci. Studies Program, Macalester Col., Saint Paul, MN; 3Psychology, Carleton Col., Northfield, MN; 4Psychology, St. Olaf Col., Northfield, MN; 5Biol., 6Psychology, Gustavus Adolphus Col., St. Peter, MN; 7Psychology, 8Biol., Univ. of St. Thomas, Saint Paul, MN; 9Psychology, Augsburg Col., Minneapolis, MN. Midbrains 2007: The inaugural year of the Midwest's undergraduate neuroscience conference. Presented Nov 3, 2007, Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA.

 

Neiworth, J.J., Whillock, K.*, Greenberg, J. *, Weaver, J.*, Kudura, A.* and Gray, E.*. Tamarins exhibit perceptual constraints similar to autistic humans. At the Experimental Psychological Society and Psychonomic Society Joint Meeting, July 4 - 7, 2007, Edinburgh, Scotland. [20-minute oral presentation; powerpoint will be posted soon.]

Neiworth, J.J., Johnson, E.*, Whillock, K.*, Brown, V*, and Greenberg, J.* A test of inequity aversion in cotton top tamarins (Saguinus oedipus). At the 47th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Houston, TX, Nov 17, 2006.

 

Neiworth, J.J., Sonstegard, M.* Lewis, A.* and Whillock, K.* Assessment of numerosity by tamarins. At the 46th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Toronto, CANADA, November 11, 2005. [Click here for poster in pdf form]

 

Neiworth, J.J., Lewis, A.* and Sonstegard, M.* Assessment of Number by Tamarins. At the 12th Annual Comparative Cognition Society Meeting ,CO3-2005, Melbourne Beach, Florida, March 16-19, 2005. [click here for PowerPoint presentation]

 

Neiworth, J.J., Gleichman, A.*, Olinick, A.*, Lamp, K.* Hierarchical Processing of Stimuli by Adults, 5-year olds, and Monkeys. 45th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Minneapolis, MN, November 18-21, 2004. [click here for pdf of poster]

Neiworth, J.J., and Ballard, R.H.* Influence of geometric and nongeometric cues in foraging by tamarins. Presented at the 44th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Vancouver, CANADA, Nov 6, 2003.

 

Neiworth, J.J., Sylvester, C.J.*, Hassett, J.M.*, and Basile, B.M.* Is socially-mediated sharing ape-specific? The effects of cooperation and of a food prime on food sharing in cotton top tamarins (Saguinus oedipus). Presented at the 75th Annual Midwestern Psychological Association Meeting, Chicago, IL, May 9, 2003.

 

Neiworth, J.J, Hassett, J.M.*, and Sylvester, C.J.* Face processing by tamarins and humans: Evidence of conspecific and experiential effects. Presented at the 75th Annual Midwestern Psychological Association Meeting, Chicago, IL, May 9, 2003.

 

Neiworth, J.J., Parsons, R.R.*, and Hassett, J.M.* Attentional Differences Toward Natural Kinds Categories by Cotton Top Tamarins (Saguinus oedipus): An Examination of Preferential Looking at Different Levels of Category Inclusiveness. At the 14th Bienniel International Conference on Infant Studies, Toronto, ONT Canada, April 18-21, 2002.

 

Neiworth, J.J., Steinmark, E.*, DeHart, C.*, and Steely, F.* A test of object permanence in a new world monkey species, cotton top tamarins (Saguinus oedipus). At the 42nd Annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Orlando, FL, Nov 15 -17, 2001.

Neiworth, J.J., Burman, M.*, Basile, B.*, & Lickteig, M.* Use of experimenter-given cues in co-orienting and choice tasks in cotton top tamarins. (#34), Human Cognition, Comparative Psychology and Psychobiology Session, 73rd Annual Midwestern Psychological Association Meeting, Chicago, ILL, May 5, 2001.

Wright, A.A., Rivera, J.J., Hulse, S.H., Shyan, M., and Neiworth, J.J. Octave generalization of tonal musical passages. Presented at the 39th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Nov 21st, 1998, Dallas, TX.

Neiworth, J.J. Internal models of space, time, and movement in animals. Presented at the Comparative Aspects of Cognitive Science Conference, Aix-en-Provence, France, July 6-17, 1992, sponsored by Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France & Ecole d'Art, Aix-en-Provence & NRC, France.

Neiworth, J.J. Accuracies and inaccuracies in movement representation. Presented at the Dalhousie Conference, Cognitive Aspects of Stimulus Control, sponsored by NSERC, Halifax, Nova Scotia, June 12, 1989.

Wright, A.A., Cook, R.B., Shyan, M.R., Neiworth, J.J., Jitsumori, M. Emmerton, J. , Sands, S.F., Rivera, J.J.& Delius, J.D. Concept learning by pigeons and monkeys. Presented at the Annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society in Chicago, IL, November, 1988.

Neiworth, J.J. & Rilling, M.E.. Towards a method for studying imagery in animals. Presented at the Annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society in New Orleans, LO, November, 1986.

Neiworth, J.J. Investigating the form of pigeon memory. Presented at the Conference on Animal Learning in Toronto, Ontario, CA, June, 1986.

Rilling, M.E. & Neiworth, J.J. Movement extrapolation in pigeons. Presented at the Midwestern Psychological Association in Chicago, IL, May, 1986.

Neiworth, J.J., & Rilling, M.E. Imagery in pigeons. Presented at the Annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, MA, November, 1985.

Neuringer, A.J., Balaban, M.T., Neiworth, J.J., & Rhodes, D. Punishment: Why it works and why not. Presented at the ABA convention in Milwaukee, WI, May, 1982.

Funding Awards

Courses Taught (all single term courses)