<div dir="ltr"><div>I expected a larger outpouring of grief at Anne's passing, and awe expressed for her achievements. I haven't said anything on this email thread yet because I didn't study under her, or with her, and have not published studies to directly test key tenets of her various theories (either Attenuation Theory or Feature Integration Theory). However, I, like most people who have studied visual attention at any point in the last 40 years have been deeply influenced by her Feature Integration theory in so many ways it is hard to keep track of them all (e.g., the concepts of feature versus conjunction search tasks, pre-attentive features being processed in parallel across the field of view, attention's role in binding features into objects, illusory conjunctions of features from different objects, serial processing of tasks requiring binding via attention, etc., etc.). Indeed, her proposed mechanism of attentional binding involving a master attentional map linking attended locations across other feature maps, is one of the best and earliest examples of a theory to explain how we put all the analyzed features that we know exist in various parts of the brain back together into a perceived whole. Overall, her theoretical concepts are the foundation of much of what any student of visual attention must learn in their first year of graduate school, and then must keep on working with (and questioning, and debating) thereafter. Though virtually all the central claims of Anne's Feature Integration Theory have been thoroughly debated and/or modified in various subsequent theories, her work either provides the bedrock foundation for those theories, or the essential point of departure. Thus, Anne's Feature Integration Theory is essential to discussing visual attention as we think about it, almost 40 years after she proposed it. Only a very few others in our field have achieved that sort of impact, making her a giant in the field of Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Science. All of this, of course, goes without saying, as her "About 43,800 results" (as of 13/02/2018) on Google Scholar attest. But I just thought a broader statement of awe of her impact and gratitude for her contributions from someone with no direct connection to her needed to be made. </div><div><br></div><div>Sincerely,</div><div><br></div><div>Les Loschky</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 9:57 PM, Oliver Braddick <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:oliver.braddick@psy.ox.ac.uk" target="_blank">oliver.braddick@psy.ox.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">We were so sad to hear that Anne Treisman had passed away. She inspired us and many others with her combination of simple but subtle experiments and her modestly presented but bold advances in theory. Vision people may not be aware that
she had already (in her PhD work) transformed thinking about auditory attention before she turned her scientific spotlight to visual attention. Those she impressed included Francis Crick who frequently referred to Anne’s ideas (“What does SHE think?”) in
the brief sabbatical we spent with him, running visual search psychophysics experiments in the Salk. She was an outstanding role model for women scientists the world over, with a thoughtful, generous and kind approach to everyone in the fields of attention
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">I am very sorry to report that Anne Treisman died last night at age 82. She had been in declining health for the past few years. Anne was a towering
figure in the field of attention. Her early work shaped our understanding of auditory attention with her dichotic listening experiments and Attenuation Theory. When she turned to visual attention, her visual search experiments and her seminal Feature Integration
Theory propelled decades of research. She was both a rigorous and generous colleague and mentor. She will be greatly missed. We offer our sympathy to her husband, Daniel Kahneman and to her children and grandchildren. A fuller account of her life will follow
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