Todd Horowitz
Program Director
Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences (DCCPS)
National Cancer Institute
United States of America
Biography
Todd S. Horowitz, Ph.D., is a Program Director in the Behavioral Research Program's (BRP) Basic Biobehavioral and Psychological Sciences Branch (BBPSB), located in the Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences (DCCPS) at the National Cancer Institute (NCI). Dr. Horowitz earned his doctorate in Cognitive Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley in 1995. Prior to joining NCI, he was Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School and Associate Director of the Visual Attention Laboratory at Brigham and Women's Hospital. He has published more than 70 peer-reviewed research papers in vision science and cognitive psychology. His research interests include attention, perception, medical image interpretation, cancer-related cognitive impairments, sleep, and circadian rhythms.
Research Interest
Attention, Visual perception, Circadian rhythms
Publications
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Thornton IM, Bülthoff HH, Horowitz TS, Rynning A, Lee SW. Interactive multiple object tracking (iMOT). PloS one. 2014 Feb 3;9(2):e86974.
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Drew T, Mance I, Horowitz TS, Wolfe JM, Vogel EK. A soft handoff of attention between cerebral hemispheres. Current Biology. 2014 May 19;24(10):1133-7.
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Alberti CF, Horowitz T, Bronstad PM, Bowers AR. Visual attention measures predict pedestrian detection in central field loss: a pilot study. PloS one. 2014 Feb 18;9(2):e89381.
