Anne Treisman
| Anne M. Treisman | |
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in 2004
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| Born |
27 February 1935 Wakefield, Yorkshire, England |
| Residence | New York City, United States |
| Fields | Psychology |
| Institutions | Princeton University |
| Alma mater | Oxford University |
| Known for | Feature integration theory, Attenuation theory |
| Notable awards |
Golden Brain Award (1996) Grawemeyer Award in Psychology (2009) National Medal of Science (2011) |
Anne Marie Treisman (born 27 February 1935 in Wakefield, Yorkshire) is a psychologist at Princeton University's Department of Psychology. She researches visual attention, object perception, and memory. One of her most influential ideas is the feature integration theory of attention, first published with G. Gelade in 1980. Treisman has taught at Oxford University, University of British Columbia, University of California, Berkeley and Princeton. 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 has experimentally and theoretically defined the issue of how information is selected and integrated to form meaningful objects that guide human thought and action.
Anne Treisman was born in Wakefield, Yorkshire, England. Two years later, her family moved to Rochester, Kent where her father, Percy Taylor, worked as chief education officer during World War II. The English educational system at the time forced Treisman to choose only three subjects In her last two years at secondary school, and Treisman focused on the language arts (French, Latin and History). Treisman received her B.A. in French Literature at Cambridge in 1954. She earned a first class BA with distinction, which earned her a scholarship that she used to obtain a second BA in psychology. During this extra year, Treisman studied under the supervision of Richard Gregory, who introduced her to various methods of exploring the mind through experiments in perception. While at Cambridge, she was active in the folk music scene.
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