Person
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
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.
Research
My profile in Lund University research portal
- Pyrocognition: the evolution of understanding fire and cooking (research leader)
Books (1)
Articles (13)
- Jacobs, I., Persson, T. & Sauciuc, G.-A. (submitted). The evolution of primate short-term memory. Animal behavior and cognition.
- Jacobs, I., von Bayern, A. & Osvath, M. (2021). Tools and food on heat lamps: pyrocognitive sparks in New Caledonian crows?. Behaviour. Brill.
- Zeiträg, C. & Jacobs, I. (2021). Animal Behaviour : The elusive perspective of a food thief. eLife, 10. eLife Sciences Publications.
- 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 Academy of 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.
- Lambert, M., Jacobs, I., Osvath, M. & von Bayern, A. (2019). Birds of a feather? Parrot and corvid cognition compared. Behaviour, 156, 505-594. Brill.
- 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 Media S. A..
- 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 Publishing.
- 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.
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 (9)
- Klerk, S. & Jacobs, I. (2021). Reasoning by Exclusion. In Vonk, J. & Shackelford, T. (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior. Springer Nature.
- Zewald, J. & Jacobs, I. (2021). Object Permanence. In Vonk, J. & Shackelford, T. (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior. Springer Nature.
- Jacobs, I. (2020). Animal Response to Fire. In Vonk, J. & Shackelford, T. (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior. Springer International Publishing.
- Jacobs, I. (2018). String Pulling. In Vonk, J. & Shackelford, T. (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior. Springer Nature.
- 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 (2)
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