Thursday, February 22, 2018

RIP Anne Treisman, who revolutionized how we understand attention.


The Morning News http://ift.tt/2onQDMU

This video briefly explains her theory of selective attention, which explains how we pick out a known face in a crowded room. The cognitive psychologist also made waves in the '80s with Feature Integration Theory, which provided the theoretical framework for localizing the parts of the brain that deal with the color, shape, smell and so on of an object while also asking how they get put together again to make an "object."

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