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Professor Anne Treisman FBA

Human cognitive neuroscience; the visual perception of objects; early feature analysis and the role of attention in the binding problem; perceptual learning and automatization of perceptual skills; and visual memory for objects and events.
Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
2009
Year of birth
1935
Year of death
2018
Subjects
Psychology
Sections
Psychology
Website
http://psych.princeton.edu/psychology/research/treisman/index.php

Current post

Professor Emerita of Psychology, Princeton University

Past appointments

Princeton Professor Emerita of Pschology

2014 -

Publications

Theoretical and psychological perspectives on attention. In Gazzaniga, M Ed. The Cognitive Neurosciences, IV, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. pp. 189-204 In Gazzaniga, M Ed. The Cognitive Neurosciences, IV, 2009

How the deployment of attention determines what we see Visual Cognition, 14 2006

Strategies and models of selective attention. , 76, 282-299. Psychological Review, 76 1969

A feature-integration theory of attention Cognitive Psychology, 12 1980

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Constantine Sedikides FBA

The experimental analysis of self and identity (including motivated self-enhancement and narcissism), sense of authenticity and the emotion of nostalgia

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Professor Robert Plomin FBA

Behavioural genetics, Developmental and educational psychology

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Professor Mahzarin Banaji FBA

Social cognition as it operates without conscious awareness or control and dissociated from intention and values; implicit bias arising from group memberships (age, class, ethnicity, gender, religion, nationality)

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