Anne Treisman

ANNE TREISMAN, Professor of Psychology at Princeton University, is one of the most influential cognitive psychologists in the world today. For over 40 years she has been defining fundamental issues of how information is selected and integrated to form meaningful objects and memories that guide human thought and action. Her creativity and insight have often challenged investigators to think outside the box, to reach beyond their own specialties and to address the hard questions of human cognition. She has been recognised by election to the Royal Society in 1989, the National Academy of Sciences in the USA in 1994, and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 1995. Anne Treisman was the first psychologist to win the Golden Brain Award, in 1996.