After completing a DPhil on the mechanisms of homing pigeon navigation at the University of Oxford in 1996, I started my post-doctoral career by investigating interval timing in birds and then tool use and manufacture by New Caledonian crows, also at the University of Oxford. Following a temporary lectureship in Behavioural Ecology at Oxford between 2001 and 2003, I started my current post as Lecturer in Animal Behaviour at the University of Birmingham in 2004.

Chappell, J., Cutting, N., Apperly, I. A. and Beck, S. R. (2013). The development of tool manufacture in humans: what helps young children make innovative tools? Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 368, 20120409. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2012.0409 Arriola-Rios, V. E., Demery, Z. P., Wyatt, J., Sloman, A. and Chappell, J. (2013). Salient Features and Snapshots in Time: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Object Representation. In 7 (eds. G. Dodig-Crnkovic and R. Giovagnoli), pp. 171-184. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag. Tecwyn, E. C., Thorpe, S. K. and Chappell, J. (2013). A novel test of planning ability: Great apes can plan step-by-step but not in advance of action. Behav Processes 100, 174-184. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2013.09.016 Tecwyn, E. C., Thorpe, S. K. S. and Chappell, J. (2012). What cognitive strategies do orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) use to solve a trial-unique puzzle-tube task incorporating multiple obstacles? Animal Cognition 15, 121-133. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10071-011-0438-x Beck, S. R., Chappell, J., Apperly, I. A. and Cutting, N. (2012). Tool innovation may be a critical limiting step for the establishment of a rich tool-using culture: a perspective from child development. Behav Brain Sci 35, 220-221. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X11001877 Chappell, J., Demery, Z. P., Arriola-Rios, V. and Sloman, A. (2012). How to build an information gathering and processing system: Lessons from naturally and artificially intelligent systems. Behavioural Processes 89, 179-186. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2011.10.001 Troscianko, J., von Bayern, A. M., Chappell, J., Rutz, C. and Martin, G. R. (2012). Extreme binocular vision and a straight bill facilitate tool use in New Caledonian crows. Nat Commun 3, 1110. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms2111 Chappell, J. and Hawes, N. (2012). Biological and artificial cognition: what can we learn about mechanisms by modelling physical cognition problems using artificial intelligence planning techniques? Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 367, 2723-2732. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2012.0221 Demery, Z.P., Chappell, J., & Martin, G.R. (2011). Vision, touch and object manipulation in Senegal parrots Poicephalus senegalus. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 278, 3687-3693. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2011.0374 Beck, S.R., Apperly, I.A., Chappell, J., Guthrie, C., & Cutting, N. (2011). Making tools isn't child's play. Cognition 119(2): 149-312. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2011.01.003. Chappell, J. (2010). Cognition and intelligence: peering in to the ‘black box’. In: The New Optimists: Scientists View Tomorrow's World & What it Means to Us (ed. K. Richards), Linus Publishing. Chappell, J. and Thorpe, SKS. (2010). AI-Inspired Biology: Does AI Have Something to Contribute to Biology? In: Proceedings of the International Symposium on AI Inspired Biology: A Symposium at the AISB 2010 Convention, Leicester, UK Chappell, J. (2009). Book review: Bio-Inspired Artificial Intelligence: Theories, Methods, and Technologies. American Journal of Human Biology 21, 713-714. Sloman, A. and Chappell, J. (2007) Computational cognitive epigenetics. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 30, 375-376. Chappell, J. and Sloman, A. (2007) Natural and artificial meta-configured altricial information-processing systems. International Journal of Unconventional Computing. 3, 211-239. Chappell, J. (2006) Avian cognition: Understanding tool use. Current Biology, 7, R244-R245. Chappell, J. (2006) Living with the trickster: Crows, ravens, and human culture. PLoS Biol. 4, e14. Kacelnik, A. and Chappell, J. and Weir, A.A.S. and Kenward, B. (2006) Cognitive adaptations for tool-related behaviour in New Caledonian crows. In: Comparative Cognition: Experimental Explorations of Animal Intelligence. eds. Wasserman, E.A and Zentall, T.R. pp. 515-528. OUP, Oxford. Sloman, A. and Chappell, J. (2005) Altricial self-organising information-processing systems. AISB Quarterly. 121, 5-7. Kacelnik, A., Chappell, J., Weir, A.A.S. and Kenward, B. (2005) Tool use and manufacture in birds. In: Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior Volume 3. ed. Bekoff, M. pp. 1067-1069. Greenwood Publishing Group.