Anne Treisman
Psychologist, Award Winner
1935 –
Who is Anne Treisman?
Anne Marie Treisman is a psychologist currently 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 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.
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- Born
- Feb 27, 1935
Wakefield - Spouses
- Daniel Kahneman
(1978 - )
- Daniel Kahneman
- Nationality
- England
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of Oxford
- University of Cambridge
- Employment
- Princeton University
- Lived in
- New York City
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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