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70
Citations
59034
World Ranking
2214
National Ranking
1287

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - US President's National Medal of 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.", President Barack H. Obama in the East Room of the White House on February 1, 2013.
  • 2009 - Grawemeyer Award in Psychology, University of Louisville
  • 2002 - William James Fellow Award, Association for Psychological Science (APA)
  • 1996 - Golden Brain Award, Minerva Foundation
  • 1994 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1990 - APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology, American Psychological Association
  • 1965 - Spearman Medal, British Psychological Society

Overview

Anne Treisman was affiliated with Princeton University in the United States. Their research career spanned over five decades, focusing primarily on the study of attention and perception within the human mind and brain.

Throughout their career, Treisman received multiple awards recognizing contributions to psychological science and cognitive research. Among these honors were the US President's National Medal of Science in 2011, awarded 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," as cited by President Barack H. Obama. Other distinctions included the Grawemeyer Award in Psychology from the University of Louisville in 2009, the William James Fellow Award from the Association for Psychological Science in 2002, and the Golden Brain Award from the Minerva Foundation in 1996.

Treisman was also elected as a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1994, reflecting their standing in the scientific community. Additional honors included the APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology in 1990, and the Spearman Medal from the British Psychological Society in 1965.

No specific recent papers, frequent co-authors, publication venues, book publications, or main and subfields of study were documented for this scientist. There were also no main topics or thematic areas of work listed in the available source data.

Best Publications

  • A feature-integration theory of attention

    Anne M. Treisman;Garry Gelade

  • Feature analysis in early vision : evidence from search asymmetries

    Anne Treisman;Stephen Gormican

  • The reviewing of object files: object-specific integration of information.

    Daniel Kahneman;Anne Treisman;Brian J Gibbs

  • Features and objects: the fourteenth Bartlett memorial lecture.

    Anne Treisman

  • Illusory conjunctions in the perception of objects.

    Anne Treisman;Hilary Schmidt

  • Strategies and models of selective attention.

    Anne M. Treisman

  • Conjunction search revisited

    Anne Treisman;Sharon Sato

  • The binding problem

    Anne Treisman

  • Preattentive processing in vision

    Anne Treisman

  • Contextual cues in selective listening.

    Anne M. Treisman

  • Search asymmetry: A diagnostic for preattentive processing of separable features

    Anne Treisman;Janet Souther

  • Perceptual grouping and attention in visual search for features and for objects.

    Anne Treisman

  • Binding in short-term visual memory.

    Mary E. Wheeler;Anne M. Treisman

  • Features and objects in visual processing

    Anne Treisman

  • Feature binding, attention and object perception

    Anne Treisman

  • Representation of statistical properties

    Sang Chul Chong;Anne Treisman

  • Binding in short-term visual memory.

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  • Parietal contributions to visual feature binding: evidence from a patient with bilateral lesions

    Stacia R. Friedman-Hill;Lynn C. Robertson;Anne Treisman

  • SELECTIVE ATTENTION IN MAN.

    Anne. M. Treisman

  • Voluntary attention modulates fMRI activity in human MT-MST

    Kathleen M. O'Craven;Bruce R. Rosen;Kenneth K. Kwong;Anne Treisman

  • VERBAL CUES, LANGUAGE, AND MEANING IN SELECTIVE ATTENTION.

    Anne M. Treisman

  • The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

    Anne M. Treisman;Gina Geffen

Frequent Co-Authors

Patrick Cavanagh
Patrick Cavanagh York University
Lynn C. Robertson
Lynn C. Robertson University of California, Berkeley
Glyn W. Humphreys
Glyn W. Humphreys University of Oxford
Daniel Kahneman
Daniel Kahneman Princeton University
Paul E. Downing
Paul E. Downing Bangor University
Marcia Grabowecky
Marcia Grabowecky Northwestern University
Zhe Chen
Zhe Chen Aalborg University
Jonathan D. Cohen
Jonathan D. Cohen Princeton University
Todd S. Horowitz
Todd S. Horowitz National Institutes of Health

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