Alexandra Horowitz's 2009 account of dog cognition and sensory experience — explaining what dogs smell, see, and understand based on comparative cognition research — the most widely read popular account of the science of dogs.
Creates the accessible dog cognition account — Inside of a Dog translates decades of comparative cognition research (Jakob von Uexküll's Umwelt concept, dog smell research, social cognition studies) into an accessible account that makes dogs seem both more alien (in their olfactory world) and more similar (in social cognition) to humans.
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