Anne Treisman

Anne M. Treisman
Treisman in 2011, Princeton University, recipient of the National Medal of Science
Born	Anne Marie Taylor (1935-02-27)27 February 1935 Wakefield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
Died	9 February 2018(2018-02-09) (aged 82) Manhattan, New York City, US
Alma mater	Newnham College, Cambridge Somerville College, Oxford
Known for	Feature integration theory, Attenuation theory
Spouses	Michel Treisman ​ ​ (m. 1960; div. 1976)​ Daniel Kahneman ​ (m. 1978)​
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

Anne Marie Treisman (née Taylor; 27 February 1935 – 9 February 2018) was an English psychologist who specialised in cognitive psychology.

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.^[1] 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.