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Thomas Rejsenhus Jensen is a Researcher at the Department of Philosophy, Lund University, working within the Cognitive Science program (LUCS) and the Cognitive Zoology Group. His research focuses on comparative cognition, particularly studying social cognitive abilities in birds and crocodylians to understand the evolutionary origins of cognition spanning 325 million years.
His primary research interests include:
- Evolution of social cognition in birds and archosaurs
- Comparative methods analyzing paleognaths and crocodylians
- Early archosaurian cognitive abilities reconstruction
- Cognitive differences between birds and crocodylians
- Deep-time evolutionary approaches to socio-cognitive skills
Analysis of Jensen's publications reveals a cohesive research program examining fundamental socio-cognitive skills like gaze following, play behavior, and acoustic communication across evolutionary timescales. His work bridges zoology, cognitive science, and evolutionary biology, using paleognath birds (rheas, ostriches) and crocodylians as key comparative models to investigate cognitive traits in extinct dinosaurs and early archosaurs.
Jensen actively contributes to two major research projects:
- The Evolution of Minds (2022-2027): Comprehensive study of intelligence evolution using neuroscience, cognitive zoology and paleontology
- The cradle of avian social cognition (2020-2024): Investigating social behaviors of extinct dinosaurs through extant archosaur relatives
He is affiliated with the Cognition & Philosophy VR Lab at Lund University, has participated in the International Society for Behavioral Ecology Congress (2022), and maintains an active research profile with publications in Animal Behaviour, Animal Cognition, and Frontiers in Psychology.
