Education:

University of Pennsylvania

            B.A. in Philosophy, 1991

University of California, San Diego

            M.S. in Cognitive Science, 1999

            Ph.D. in Cognitive Science, 2002

Books:

Horowitz, A. (2009). Inside of a dog: What dogs see, smell, and know. Scribner's: New York, NY.

Academic publications:

Horowitz, A. (2009). Disambiguating the "guilty look": Salient prompts to a familiar dog behaviour. Behavioural Processes, 81, 447-452 (Link to abstract).

Horowitz, A. C. (2009). Attention to attention in domestic dog (Canis familiaris) dyadic play. Animal Cognition, 12, 107-118 (Link to abstract).

Horowitz, A. (2009). Domestic dogs (Canis familiaris) use visual attention cues when play signaling. Journal of Veterinary Behavior: Clinical Applications and Research, 4, 53-54.

Horowitz, D. Horowitz, A. (2009). A comparison of dog owners' claims about their pets' guilt with evidence from dog behavior. Journal of Veterinary Behavior: Clinical Applications and Research, 4, 104.

Horowitz, A. (2008). Review of Dog behaviour, evolution, and cognition. Quarterly Review of Biology, 83, 399.

Horowitz, A. C., and Bekoff, M. (2007). Naturalizing anthropomorphism: Behavioral prompts to our humanizing of animals. Anthrozoös, 20, 23-35. (pdf)

Horowitz, A. C. (2007). Anthropomorphism. In M. Bekoff (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Human-Animal Relationships. Greenwood Publishing Group, Westport, CT, 60-66. (pdf)

Horowitz, A. (2004). Dog minds and dog play. In M. Bekoff (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior. Greenwood Publishing Group, Westport, CT, 835-836. (pdf)

Horowitz, A. C. (2003). Do humans ape? Or do apes human? Imitation and intention in humans and other animals. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 117, 325–336. (pdf)

Other publications:

Horowitz, A. (2008, July). Exactly how smart is man's best friend? Discover Magazine.

Recent conference presentations:

2008, July. Domestic dogs use visual attention cues when play signaling. Canine Science Forum, Budapest, Hungary.

2008, July. A comparison of dog owners' claims about their pets' guilt with evidence from dog behavior. With D. Horowitz. Poster presented at Canine Science Forum, Budapest, Hungary.

2007, June. Putting minds into things: Looking at anthropomorphism anew. Poster. Society for Philosophy and Psychology meeting, Toronto, Ontario.

2006, May 25-27. Service dogs as mediators of autistic children's sociability. With O. Solomon, S. Kraft, and N. Bagatell. Conference on Language, Interaction, and Culture, Los Angeles, California.

2005, August. A theory of dog mind? Attention to attention in dyadic dog play. Animal Behavior Society Conference, Snowbird, Utah.

2003, January 9-10. Dog play. Paper presented at DiMI Workshop "Perceptive social agents and robots", La Jolla, California.

Invited workshops and lectures:

2008: NICHD/Waltham "Directions in Human-Animal Interaction Research: Child Development, Health and Therapeutic Interventions", Rockville, MD.

2008: City University of New York graduate Animal Cognition class (Phil 78500), New York, NY.

2006-8: Domestication and cognition. Hunter College graduate Animal Behavior and Conservation seminar (Psych 717), New York, NY.

2005: Lessons from dyadic play. Cognitive Science Lecture Series, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH.

2005: Cognitive ethology. Hunter College graduate Animal Behavior seminar (Psych 719), New York, NY.

2004: Ethological methods in cognitive science. Hunter College graduate Cognitive Psychology seminar, New York, NY.

News coverage:

Smithsonian, August 2009

Christian Science Monitor, July 2009

Washington Post, July 2009

Psych Files podcast, July 2009

New York Times, July 2009

Boston Globe, April 2009

ScienceNow, March 2009

New Scientist, August 2008

APA Monitor, July/August 2008

Columbia News Service, April 2008

VEJA magazine (Brazil), August 2006

Discover magazine, November 2005

ScienceNow, Fall 2005

The New Yorker magazine, January 2004

Collaborative research:

Behavioral research, domestic dogs, New York City (2009) "Vocalizations between dogs (Canis familiaris) in social interaction: Barks, growls, and whines as communicative utterances." Study of intraspecies communication. (PI: Horowitz. With J. Fuller, Columbia University)

Behavioral research scientist, Sony Corporation; Machine Perception Lab (2002-2003). Ethological research of human-dog interactions, leading to the identification of behaviors, routines, and games which may be programmed into future versions of a robot dog, Aibo, created and engineered by Sony. Affective Computing for Personal Robots Grant from UC Digital Media Innovation Program & Sony (PI: Movellan)

Behavioral research, Bonobos, Wild Animal Park, Escondido, CA  (1998-1999).

Collected and interpreted data on behavior of the pygmy chimpanzee for research on the species' understanding of social space (PI C. Johnson)

Behavioral research, S. white rhinoceros, Wild Animal Park, Escondido, CA (1997).

Collected data on the movements of the rhinoceros for research on the socio-sexual behavior of the species (PI R. Swaisgood, CRES)

Ad hoc reviewer:

Animal Behaviour

Animal Cognition

Behaviour

Behavioural Processes

Cognitive Science Annual Meeting

Current Anthropology

Journal of Comparative Psychology

Learning & Behavior

Psychological Science