Anne Marie Treisman is a psychologist currently at Princeton University's Department of Psychology. She researches visual attention, object perception, and memory. One of her most influential ideas is the feature integration theory of attention, first published with G. Gelade in 1980.  In 2013, Treisman received the National Medal of Sciencefrom President Barack Obama for her pioneering work in the study of attention. Anne Triesman was born on February 27, 1935 in Wakefield, Yorkshire. She received a D.Phil. From Oxford University in 1962.