Anne Treisman

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Anne Treisman (2004)

Anne Marie Treisman (born February 27, 1935 in Wakefield , Yorkshire , England, † February 9, 2018 in Manhattan ) was a British-American cognitive psychologist .

Life

Treisman studied at Cambridge University and Oxford University , where she received her doctorate in 1962.

She was a professor of psychology at Princeton University .

Her main areas of work were perception and attention . Treisman became known through the development of feature integration theory in 1980. In 1989 she became a Fellow of the Royal Society . In 1994 she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences , 1995 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and 2005 to the American Philosophical Society . Since 2009 she has been a corresponding member of the British Academy . In 1996 she received the Golden Brain Award . For 2011 she was awarded the National Medal of Science .

Treisman was married to Daniel Kahneman and had four children.

The filter and the attenuation model of perception

Treisman is best known for her work on selective perception. In doing so, she modified Donald Broadbent's filter theory of attention in order to adapt it to the empirical data. Broadbent had stated that human information processing capacity was so limited that only information from one channel could be processed at a time. So if an input is currently being processed in the left ear, then, according to Broadbent, no other input can be considered on the right ear.

However, these claims were countered by the experimentally confirmed observation that people can hear their name being called in the ear to which their attention is not directed (cf. cocktail party effect ). Treisman therefore postulated a mechanism that carries out a preliminary check of the information. According to Treisman, the ear to which attention is not directed is not deaf , but only weakly receptive.

Important essays

  • A. Treisman, G. Gelade: A feature integration theory of attention. In: Cognitive Psychology. 12, 1980, pp. 97-136.
  • A. Treisman: Search, similarity and the integration of features between and within dimensions. In: Journal of Experimental Psychology, Human Perception and Performance. 27, 1991, pp. 652-676.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anne Treisman, obituary: Psychologist who changed views of perception . In: The Independent . ( independent.co.uk [accessed June 13, 2018]).
  2. ^ Anne Treisman, 1935-2018 , psychologicalscience.org, accessed February 13, 2018.
  3. ^ Entry on Treisman, Anne Marie (1935 - 2018) in the archive of the Royal Society , London
  4. ^ Member History: Anne M. Treisman. American Philosophical Society, accessed December 29, 2018 .
  5. ^ Fellows: Anne Treisman. British Academy, accessed August 10, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Treisman, Anne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Treisman, Anne Marie (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British-American cognitive psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Wakefield , Yorkshire , England
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 2018
Place of death Manhattan