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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

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Dr Joshua Tenenbaum FBA

Joshua Tenenbaum's research focuses on computational models of human cognition, its development and its neural basis, and using these models as the foundation for new kinds of artificial intelligence that are more efficient, general, understandable, safe and pro-human.

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Professor Susan Gathercole FBA

The cognitive mechanisms of memory and learning in typical children and adults, their impairments in developmental disorders of learning, and methods of remediation

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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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