Anne Treisman
Anne Marie Treisman (née Taylor; 27 February 1935 – 9 February 2018) was an English psychologist who specialised in cognitive psychology.
Anne M. Treisman | |
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Treisman in 2011, Princeton University, recipient of the National Medal of Science | |
| Born | Anne Marie Taylor 27 February 1935 Wakefield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England |
| Died | 9 February 2018 (aged 82) New York City, US |
| Alma mater | Newnham College, Cambridge Somerville College, Oxford |
| Known for | Feature integration theory, Attenuation theory |
| Spouses | |
| Children | Deborah Treisman, and three others |
| Awards | Golden Brain Award (1996) Grawemeyer Award in Psychology (2009) National Medal of Science (2011) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Psychology |
| Institutions | Princeton University |
| Doctoral advisor | Richard C. Oldfield |
| Notable students | Postdoctoral fellows Nancy Kanwisher and Nilli Lavie |
Treisman researched visual attention, object perception, and memory. One of her most influential ideas is the feature integration theory of attention, first published with Garry Gelade in 1980. Treisman taught at the University of Oxford, University of British Columbia, University of California, Berkeley, and Princeton University. Notable postdoctoral fellows she supervised included Nancy Kanwisher and Nilli Lavie.
In 2013, Treisman received the National Medal of Science from President Barack Obama for her pioneering work in the study of attention. During her long career, Treisman experimentally and theoretically defined the issue of how information is selected and integrated to form meaningful objects that guide human thought and action.