Staff: Todd Horowitz, Ph.D.
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.
View Dr. Todd Horowitz's presentation "How do we measure attention? Visual cognition meets neuropsychology", which was recorded for the June 2020 virtual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society:
Current and/or past BRP mentees include Melissa Trevino.
Research Areas
- Attention
- Visual perception
- Sleep and circadian rhythms
Selected Publications and Presentations
- Treviño M, Zhu X, Lu YY, Scheuer LS, Passell E, Huang GC, Germine LT, Horowitz TS. How do we measure attention? Using factor analysis to establish construct validity of neuropsychological tests. Cogn Res Princ Implic 2021 Jul 22; 6(1):51.
- Chen WG, Schloesser D, Arensdorf AM, Simmons JM, Cui C, Valentino R, Gnadt JW, Nielsen L, Hillaire-Clarke CS, Spruance V, Horowitz TS, Vallejo YF, Langevin HM. The Emerging Science of Interoception: Sensing, Integrating, Interpreting, and Regulating Signals within the Self. Trends Neurosci 2021 Jan; 44(1):3-16.
- Treviño M, Turkbey B, Wood BJ, Pinto PA, Czarniecki M, Choyke PL, Horowitz TS. Rapid perceptual processing in two- and three-dimensional prostate images. J Med Imaging (Bellingham) 2020 Mar; 7(2).
- Horowitz TS, Trevino M, Gooch IM, Duffy KA. Understanding the Profile of Cancer-Related Cognitive Impairments: A Critique of the Meta-Analyses. J Natl Cancer Inst 2019 May 25.
- Horowitz TS, Suls J, Trevino M. A Call for a Neuroscience Approach to Cancer-Related Cognitive Impairment. Trends Neurosci 2018 Aug; 41(8):493-496.
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