Psychology professor emerita ANNE TREISMAN died Feb. 9 in New York City. She was 82. A psychologist who made major contributions to the understanding of attention and perception, Treisman joined the faculty in 1993 and became emerita in 2010. Her work — which helped explain how humans focus on relevant auditory information in noisy environments and how they extract meaning from complex visual scenes — influenced generations of scientists studying cognitive psychology. In 2013, Treisman received the National Medal of Science. Two years later, a $10 million gift to Princeton created the Daniel Kahneman and Anne Treisman Center for Behavioral Science and Public Policy.
Sitraka St. Michael ’11 writes that when he came out at Princeton, the Chapel under retired Dean Alison Boden offered ’the kind of encouraging welcome my faith needed’
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