Anne Treisman

Anne Marie Treisman FRS (born February 27, 1935 in Wakefield, Yorkshire) 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 is married to Nobel Laureate psychologist Daniel Kahneman. According to this theory, different kinds of attention are responsible for binding different features into consciously experienced wholes. The theory of feature integration is very dominant in the field of visual attention to this day. This idea has been disputed. Researchers (Krisjánsson, Nakamura) have shown that the effect of priming...