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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 Richard Aslin FBA

Psychological development of infants and young children with a focus on language learning, visual perception and the brain mechanisms that support these fundamental skills.

Richard Aslin FBA

Professor Margaret Snowling FBA

Developmental disorders of language, learning and cognition including basic research on dyslexia and language impairment and the development and evaluation of interventions that ameliorate children’s literacy difficulties

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Professor Andrew Steptoe FBA

Social and psychological factors related to physical health outcomes; epidemiology of ageing, cardiovascular disease, and dementia; health psychology and positive wellbeing

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