Anne Treisman
Award Name : National Medal of Science
Year of Award : 2011
Award for : Social sciences
Location : Newyork, Scotland, United Kingdom
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. In
2013, Treisman received the National Medal of Sciencefrom President Barack
Obama for her pioneering work in the study of attention. Anne Triesman was born
on February 27, 1935 in Wakefield, Yorkshire. She received a D.Phil. From
Oxford University in 1962.