Person Treisman; Anne Marie (1935 - 2018); psychologist Treisman Anne Marie psychologist 1935 - 2018 British Female In a nursing home at 3 St John’s Terrace, Wakefield, Yorkshire,Wakefield, Yorkshire, England 27 February 1935 19350227 East 10th Street, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA 09 February 2018 20180209

2 Wentworth Terrace, Wakefield, England (1935) Swale, near Rochester, Kent, England (1937) East 10th Street, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA (2010)

Psychologist Cognitive science Psychology Education: Kendrick School, Reading; Newnham College, Cambridge BA 1954; Somerville College, Oxford DPhil 1957 Career: Worked in the Medical Research Council's Psycholinguistics Research Unit, Oxford, conducting research in selective listening (1957); proposed her Attenuation Theory (1964); accepted positions at the University of British Columbia (1978); moved to the University of California, Berkey,USA, where she co-ran an “Attention-lab”, with Kahenman, in the Psychology Department (1986); Member of the Psychology Department at Princeton University (1993-2010); retired from Princeton and moved to East 10th Street, Manhattan, New York (2010); died following a stroke. Awards/Medals: Golden Brain Award 1996 Grawemeyer Award in Psychology 2009 National Medal of Science 2011 National Medal of Science by President Barack Obama 2013 Memberships: US National Academy of Sciences 1994 American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1995 Parents: Percy Strawson Taylor (1909–1962), administrative assistant in Yorkshire county council’s education department, and Suzanne Jeanne Anna, née Touren (1906–1989). Spouse: 1) (m.15 August 1960) Michel Treisman (b. 1929), son of Henry Treisman, portrait photographer 2) (m.3 July 1978) Daniel (Danny) Kahneman (b. 1934). Children: Four. Specialised in cognitive psychology and dedicated her career to the study of attention and perception, a central concern of cognitive science. While still a graduate student, she modified and reformulated the leading theory of auditory attention. Her discoveries and insights into the role of visual attention in the perception of objects, to which she devoted her subsequent decades of research, have had a lasting influence, not only in experimental psychology but also in vision research, neuroscience and artificial intelligence. In a period of rising interest in the brain, her foundational theories inspired thousands of experiments in her own field and others, and the originality and precision of her experimental design confirmed the continued relevance of behavioural research to the scientific enterprise. DNB notes Treisman as having been anxious to sign the Royal Society charter book upon her election, worrying she might misspell her own name. Fellow 16/03/1989 54 DNB Kahneman Daniel and Treisman Deborah 2020Anne Marie Treisman. 27 February 1935—9 February 2018Biogr. Mems Fell. R. Soc.68407–430 Treisman, AM_IM_GA_GGRS8541.jpg International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbm.2019.0035 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/action/doSearch?ContribAuthorRaw=Treisman%2C+Anne RCN 58105 RCN 53603 https://pictures.royalsociety.org/results?mi_search_type=adv&mi_adv_search=yes&adv_person_id=AUTH8552 27 Feb 1935 - The past Fellows entries are under continuous revision. If you have queries or additional information to contribute, please contact Library@royalsociety.org. Content in external sources is not controlled by the Royal Society and historical sources may include content that is now unacceptable. Reviewed on 05/03/2025 as part of the Name Authority Project update. NA5308 21/11/2001 Andyg Martind 08/09/2025 RS_NET\VirginiaM Yes ba84803e-2db2-49e7-b5df-99ae8302a609