Softback. Blue binding with Dark blue title and picture of a dog on the front board.

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The answers will surprise and delight you as Alexandra Horowitz A Cognitive Scientist explains how dogs perceive is their daily worlds each other and that other quirky animal . the human. Horowitz introduces the reader to dogs’ perceptual and cognitive abilities and then draws a picture of what it might be like to be a dog. What’s it like to be able to smell not just every bit of open food in the house but also to smell sadness in humans. or even the passage of time How does a tiny dog ??manage to play successfully with a Great Dane What is it like to hear the bodily vibrations of insects or the hum of a fluorescent light Why must a person on a bicycle be chased? What’s it like to use your mouth as a hand In short. what is it like for a dog to experience life from two feet off the ground. amidst the smells of…

Alexandra Horowitz is a term assistant professor of psychology at Barnard College. She has a Ph.D. in Cognitive Science and has studied the cognition of humans, rhinoceroses, bonobos, and dogs. She has researched dogs professionally for eight years. Before her scientific career, she worked as a lexicographer at Merriam-Webster and was on the staff at The New Yorker. She currently lives in New York City with Finnegan, a dog of indeterminate parentage and determinate character, and the fond memories of dogs past.