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Researcher
- Cognitive Science
- Department of Philosophy
Contact information
E-mail ivo.jacobslucs.luse
Phone +46 46 222 40 45
Room LUX:B476
Visiting address Helgonavägen 3, Lund
Postal address Box 192, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 30
I am a PhD student in Cognitive Zoology since January 2013, under the main supervision of Dr Mathias Osvath, and Dr Tomas Persson secondarily.
My research focuses on the cognitive abilities of apes and corvids in the physical domain. Both proximate and ultimate mechanisms of physical cognition are investigated, in the hope we will learn more about what these animals understand about the physical world they inhabit, how it has evolved and why particularly in these distantly related taxa.
Currently we are writing a review of the age-old string-pulling problem, and we are testing several hypotheses of this paradigm on orangutans, chimpanzees, ravens and New Caledonian crows.
Research
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My research focuses on the evolution of cognition – through study of mechanism, development, phylogeny and fitness value – in crocodilians, palaeognaths (ratites and tinamous), corvids and primates.
It comprises three overlapping projects: independent cognitive evolution in primates and corvids; reconstructing the minds of early birds and non-avian dinosaurs; and the origins of pyrocognition (fire-related cognition) in animals, extinct hominins and modern humans.
Books (1)
Articles (10)
- von Bayern, A., Jacobs, I. & Osvath, M. (2020). Tool-using puffins prickle the puzzle of cognitive evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117, 2737-2739. National Acad Sciences.
- Jacobs, I., Kabadayi, C. & Osvath, M. (2019). The Development of Sensorimotor Cognition in Common Ravens (Corvus corax) and its Comparative Evolution. Animal behavior and cognition, 6, 194-212. Sciknow Publications Ltd..
- Lambert, M., Jacobs, I., Osvath, M. & von Bayern, A. (2019). Birds of a feather? Parrot and corvid cognition compared. Behaviour, 156, 505-594. Brill Academic Publishers.
- Jacobs, I. & Gärdenfors, P. (2017). The false dichotomy of domain-specific versus domain-general cognition. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40, 34-35. Cambridge University Press.
- Kabadayi, C., Jacobs, I. & Osvath, M. (2017). The Development of Motor Self-Regulation in Ravens. Frontiers in Psychology, 8. Frontiers.
- Jacobs, I. F., von Bayern, A. & Osvath, M. (2016). A novel tool-use mode in animals : New Caledonian crows insert tools to transport objects. Animal Cognition, 19, 1249-1252. Springer.
- Jacobs, I. & Osvath, M. (2015). The string-pulling paradigm in comparative psychology. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 129, 89-120. American Psychological Association (APA).
- Jacobs, I., von Bayern, A., Martin-Ordas, G., Rat-Fischer, L. & Osvath, M. (2015). Corvids create novel causal interventions after all. Royal Society of London. Proceedings B. Biological Sciences, 282. Royal Society.
- Jacobs, I., Osvath, M., Osvath, H., Mioduszewska, B., von Bayern, A. M. P. & Kacelnik, A. (2014). Object caching in corvids: Incidence and significance. Behavioural Processes, 102, 25-32. Elsevier.
- Osvath, M., Kabadayi, C. & Jacobs, I. (2014). Independent evolution of similar complex cognitive skills : the importance of embodied degrees of freedom. Animal behavior and cognition, 1, 249-264. Sciknow Publications Ltd..
Book chapters (2)
- Jacobs, I. (2011). Sisyphus en de regenworm : cognitie, emotie, ervaring en bewustzijn van dieren. In Nuijten, R. & Mol, C. (Eds.) Biologie in de 21ste eeuw. de Graaff.
- Jacobs, I. & Daggers, T. (2011). Hoe een Boeing uit een vuilnisbelt ontstaat : de conflicten en overeenkomsten tussen biologie en religie. In Nuijten, R. & Mol, C. (Eds.) Biologie in de 21ste eeuw. de Graaff.
Encyclopaedia entries (6)
- Jacobs, I. (2018). String Pulling. In Vonk, J. & Shackelford, T. (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior. Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
- Jacobs, I. & Osvath, M. (2017). Innate and Learned Tool Use. In Shackelford, T. K. & Weekes-Shackelford, V. A. (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science (pp. 1-4). Springer International Publishing.
- Jacobs, I. & Osvath, M. (2017). Nonhuman Tool Use. In Shackelford, T. K. & Weekes-Shackelford, V. A. (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer International Publishing.
- Jacobs, I. & Osvath, M. (2017). Proto-tool. In Shackelford, T. K. & Weekes-Shackelford, V. A. (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science (pp. 1-4). Springer International Publishing.
- Jacobs, I. & Osvath, M. (2017). Social Tool. Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science, 1-4. Springer International Publishing.
- Jacobs, I. & Osvath, M. (2016). Meta-tool. In Shackelford, T. K. & Weekes-Shackelford, V. A. (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science (pp. 1-4). Springer International Publishing.
Articles in specialist publications and popular press (1)
Researcher
- Cognitive Science
- Department of Philosophy
Contact information
E-mail ivo.jacobslucs.luse
Phone +46 46 222 40 45
Room LUX:B476
Visiting address Helgonavägen 3, Lund
Postal address Box 192, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 30