Awards & Winners

Anne Treisman

Date of Birth 27-February-1935
Place of Birth Wakefield
(West Yorkshire, United Kingdom)
Nationality England, United States of America
Profession Psychologist
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.

Awards by Anne Treisman

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2011


National Medal of Science for Behavioral and Social Science
(For a 50-year career of penetrating originality and depth that has led to the understanding of fundamental attentional limits in the human mind and brain.)