Julie J. Neiworth, Ph.D.


Professor

Department of Psychology

Director of Neuroscience


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

 

Recognition and Honors

NIH AREA grant 1R15HD72571-01, July 15, 2012- 2015, $344,204.00 to revisit challenged findings to determine social and cognitive processes in tamarins.

was given the Walter D Mink Outstanding Undergraduate Teacher Award, by the Minnesota Psychological Association, April 2010.

was appointed fellow status in the American Psychological Association for Division 6 in August, 2009.

Accepted a position as Consulting Editor for the Journal of Comparative Psychology, a peer-reviewed APA (American Psychological Association) journal, in January, 2009.

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; 2006-2010). 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; 2012-2013.
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.

A trade book entitled "With Monkeys in Mind."

Publications

* indicates Carleton student or Carleton graduate author.

--Click on underlined author portion to be sent to the journal abstract --

1. Neiworth, J.J. (2012). Chasing sounds. Behavioural Processes, in press.
 
2. Neiworth, J.J. (2009). Thinking about me: How social awareness evolved. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 18, 143-147.
 
3. Neiworth, J.J., Johnson, E. T., Whillock, K., Greenberg, J., Brown, V. (2009). Is a sense of inequity an ancestral primate trait? Social inequity in cotton top tamarins (Saguinus oedipus? Journal of Comparative Psychology, 123, 10-17.
 
4. 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.
 
5. 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.
 
6. 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.
 
7. 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.
 
8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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.

11. 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.

12. 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.

13. 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.

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

15. 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.

16. 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.

17. 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.

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

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

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

21. 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.

22. 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

Click here for 2012 USA Today article on Neiworth's re-testing of Hauser's work.

Click here for 2012 NPR interview with Neiworth about self-awareness in monkeys.

"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.

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
External Awards

2012-2015: NIH AREA grant 1 R15 HD72571-01, REVISITING CHALLENGED FINDINGS TO DETERMINE SOCIAL AND COGNITIVE ABILITIES IN TAMARINS. $344,204

 

2006-2010: NIH AREA grant 1R15MH071232-01A2, EXAMINING A MODEL OF LOCAL-DRIVEN ATTENTION IN TAMARINS. $207,059

 

2002-2005:NIH AREA grant 1R15MH062434-01A1, JUDGEMENT OF OBJECTS--ORIENTATION, MOVEMENT & MEMBERSHIP. $118,438

 

1997-2000: NSF ILI 9751519, Enhancing scientific reasoning through research training in a general psychology laboratory. Co-PI's Neil Lutsky. $96,500.

 

1995-7: NSF ILI 9550783, Restructuring the Learning Lab for Animal Learning and Cognition. $72,384.

 

1987-88: NIH 1 F32 MH09610-01 to investigate the cognitive and perceptual abilities of primates and avians. Postdoctoral funding: U of Texas Neurobiology Department, Biomedical Sciences, Houston, TX.

 

Internal Awards

Howard Hughes Medical Institute Support (HHMI):

2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2006, 2004, 2001, 2000, 1997, 1993, 1990: summer stipend for 1 - 3 students each year.

Roth Faculty Development:

2013: Fall course release for working on trade book on monkey cognition.

2006: Summer break support for student to conduct research on Gestalt perception in monkeys, related to autism.

Wallin Faculty Development: Targeted Opportunities

2005: Summer break support for student to complete grant-related activities.

Targeted Opportunities:

2004: Summer break support for student to complete grant-related activities.

Eugster Fellow Award:

2002-3: One term release for research on object constancy in tamarins.

All Colleges Midwest (ACM):

1991, 1990: Summer research stipends for minority students.

Courses Taught (all single term courses)

Psychology 110, Principles of Psychology (25 terms, Carleton College)

Psychology 200/201, Advanced Methods in Data Analyses and Laboratory (18 terms, Carleton College)

Psychology 210, Psychology of Learning (23 terms, Carleton College)

Psychology 211, Research Methods in Learning Laboratory (23 terms)

Psychology 212, Comparative Cognition (approximately 10 terms, Carleton College)

Psychology 365, Animal Models of Human Behavior Seminar (3 terms, Carleton College)

Psychology 366, Cognitive Neuroscience Seminar (14 terms, Carleton College)

Psychology 371, Primate Cognition Seminar (12 terms, Carleton College)

Psychology 398, Senior Colloquium (6 terms, Carleton College)

Psychology 397, Senior Tutorial (4 terms, Carleton College)

Psychology 391, 392 Independent Studies, every year for 25 years.

External Reviewer for:

NSF, NIH, FWF (Austrian Science Fund), Journal of Comparative Psychology, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, Animal Cognition, Developmental Science

Panelist for Grant Reviews:

July 1997 NSF Chair of Review Panel: Curriculum and Course Development, and Undergraduate
Faculty Enhancement Awards for the Social Sciences. NSF, Wash DC.

July 1995 NSF Review Panelist: Curriculum and Course Development, and Undergraduate
Faculty Enhancement Awards for the Social Sciences. NSF, Wash DC.

Memberships in Society

American Psychological Association (APA), American Psychological Society (APS), Midwestern Psychological Association (MPA), International Society on Infant Studies (ISIS), the Psychonomic Society, American Society of Primatologists (ASP), American Association of Laboratory Animal Sciences (AALAS)

Letters of Reference

Neil Lutsky

Professor of Psychology, 1976 to present.
Chair of dept, 1982-1989

Involved in hiring me, and co-taught with me for many years.

Neil Lutsky
Department of Psychology
Carleton College
Northfield, MN 55057
Phone: 507-646-4379
email: nlutsky@carleton.edu

Charles Snowdon,

Professor of Psychology and Biology.

Consultant, advisor on initial tamarin work.

Charles Snowdon
Department of Psychology and Biology
University of Wisconsin-Madison
W.J. Brogden Hall,
1202 West Johnson Street,
Madison, WI 53706-1696
Phone: 608-262-3974
email: snowdon@facstaff.wisc.edu

Anthony A. Wright,

Professor, Dept of Neurobiology

Sponsor, NIMH
Postdoctoral fellowship 1987-1988

Co-author of several publications (1994, 2000)

Anthony A. Wright
Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy
The University of Texas-Houston Medical School
P.O. Box 20708~Houston, Texas 77225
Phone: (713) 500-5627
email: anthony.a.wright@uth.tmc.edu

 

Mark Rilling,

Professor Emeritus

Graduate Advisor, 1982-1987

Mark Rilling, Professor Emeritus
126 Psychology Research Building
Department of Psychology
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824-1117