Alexandra Horowitz
Biography
Alexandra Horowitz is a cognitive scientist and bestselling author who founded the Dog Cognition Lab at Barnard College in 2008, the first of its kind in the country. Her research focuses on the olfactory experience, sense of self, and spatial cognition of domestic dogs.
Sample Works
- Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know (2009) Book
- Domestic Dog Cognition and Behavior: The Scientific Study of Canis familiaris (Editor) (2014) Book
- Being a Dog: Following the Dog into a World of Smell (2016) Book
- Our Dogs, Ourselves: The Story of a Singular Bond (2019) Book
- The Year of the Puppy: How Dogs Become Themselves (2022) Book
Roundtable Appearances
January 30, 2021 · ▶ Video
The Many Minds of Memory
Memory functions as "a dynamic process, a stream of renditions and reflections" rather than static storage. The event explores how memory "conveys to us not what strictly...
Cristina Alberini, Richard Cohen, Gayatri Devi, Alexandra Horowitz, Andy Lee, Setsuko Winchester
May 16, 2015 · ▶ Video
Human and Nonhuman Minds: Continuities and Discontinuities
The event examined animal cognition following Darwin's 1872 work on emotions. The subsequent prodigious scientific study of animal cognition and behavior has answered this...
Theodore Dimon, Stuart Firestein, Alexandra Horowitz, Irene Pepperberg, Diana Reiss