| Authorised form of name | Treisman; Anne Marie (1935 - 2018); psychologist |
| Dates | 1935 - 2018 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | In a nursing home at 3 St John’s Terrace, Wakefield, Yorkshire,Wakefield, Yorkshire, England |
| Date of birth | 27 February 1935 |
| Place of death | East 10th Street, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA |
| Date of death | 09 February 2018 |
| Occupation | psychologist |
| Research field | Cognitive science |
| Psychology |
| Activity | 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 |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 16/03/1989 |
| Age at election | 54 |
| RSActivity | DNB notes Treisman as having been anxious to sign the Royal Society charter book upon her election, worrying she might misspell her own name. |
| Relationships | 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. |
| PublishedWorks | RCN 58105
RCN 53603 |
| OtherInfo | 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. |
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| Source | DNB
Kahneman Daniel and Treisman Deborah 2020Anne Marie Treisman. 27 February 1935—9 February 2018Biogr. Mems Fell. R. Soc.68407–430 |
| Code | NA5308 |