Anne Treisman

Anne Treisman is a psychologist, working currently at Princeton University, Department of Psychology. She researches visual attention, object perception, and memory. One of her most influential works is certainly the feature integration theory of attention, published first in cooperation with G. Gelade in 1980. According to this model, different attention is responsible for binding different features into consciously experienced wholes. Treisman and Gelade were able to explain a large body of experimental data and at the same time their theory was clear and easy to understand. The theory was very dominant in the field of visual attention until the 1990s. Jeremy Wolfe 's theory called visual search paradigm took many ideas from the feature integration theory and many works in the field of visual attention reference back to her feature integration theory.

works

keyworks include

• Treisman, A., & Gelade, G., 1980. A feature integration theory of attention. Cognitive Psychology, 12, 97-136.
• Treisman, A., 1991. Search, similarity and the integration of features between and within dimensions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 27, 652-676.

trivia

Treisman is surprisingly often mistakenly referred to as Triesman, A.. Compare e.g. google searches Anne Triesman and Anne Treisman.

related articles

• attention
• visual attention
• Subitizing and counting
• Cognitive Science
• Cognitive Psychology
• Neuropsychology
• Cognitive neuropsychology

External links

• Treisman's homepage at Princeton

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