Anne Marie Treisman (1937-2018)

Am Psychol. 2020 May-Jun;75(4):592-593. doi: 10.1037/amp0000605.

Abstract

Memorializes Anne Marie Treisman (1937-2018). Her 1962 dissertation at Oxford University included a remarkable 14 experiments and yielded 11 publications. This impressive body of work convinced Donald Broadbent and others to accept Anne's revised theory of attention in which unattended information was attenuated but not blocked. Many of the experiments rapidly made their way into textbooks and into the classroom. Although her work on attention and feature integration is best known, Anne's other contributions were prolific, insightful, and broad. Throughout her career, Anne was showered with awards, among them awards from the Royal Society, the National Academy of Sciences, and the British Academy, as well as the National Medal of Science, presented in 2013 by President Barack Obama. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).