Anyone interested in the study of attention will have had some exposure to the work of Anne Treisman. Anne Treisman has been one of the most influential cognitive psychologists in the last 50 years. Her research and theoretical insights have influenced a variety of disciplines, including vision sciences, auditory sciences, cognitive psychology, cognitive neurosciences, philosophy, psychiatry, neuropsychology, and behavioral neurology. She is best known for her work on attention. Early in her career, much of that work involved auditory stimuli. Her later work has been primarily in the realm of visual attention. She has been especially concerned with the interactions among visual perception, attention, and memory as they relate to conscious and unconscious experience. Her Feature Integration Theory has been one of the organizing ideas in the field for three decades.
While still a graduate student at Oxford, she helped launch the modern study of attention. In the present volume, several of her most influential papers are reprinted (including some of the harder to find early work). To accompany these reprints, the editors invited experts to comment and/or to show how their own work had been shaped by Treisman's ideas and findings. The result is a scientifically rich ride through the world of ideas inspired by Treisman's work. The contributed chapters include discussions of auditory and visual attention, the role of features in selection, parallel and serial processing, and automaticity. They describe the roots and evolution of Feature Integration Theory and related models like Guided Search. They explore the interactions of attention and perception at the cognitive, neuropsychological, and biological levels. Readers can consider the critical role of binding in perception, the role of attention in scene perception, as well as the influence of cognitive load, memory, reflection, and perceptual learning on early and late processing. They will see how methods to study conscious perceptual awareness have evolved over the years.
任何對注意力研究感興趣的人都會接觸到安妮·特雷斯曼（Anne Treisman）的工作。安妮·特雷斯曼在過去50年中一直是最具影響力的認知心理學家之一。她的研究和理論見解影響了多個學科，包括視覺科學、聽覺科學、認知心理學、認知神經科學、哲學、精神病學、神經心理學和行為神經學。她最著名的工作是關於注意力的研究。在她職業生涯的早期，她的許多工作涉及聽覺刺激。她後來的研究主要集中在視覺注意力的領域。她特別關注視覺知覺、注意力和記憶之間的相互作用，這些相互作用與意識和無意識的經驗有關。她的特徵整合理論（Feature Integration Theory）已經成為該領域三十年來的組織性理念之一。
在牛津大學讀研究生時，她幫助啟動了現代注意力研究。在本書中，重印了她幾篇最具影響力的論文（包括一些較難找到的早期作品）。為了配合這些重印，編輯邀請了專家進行評論和/或展示他們自己的工作如何受到特雷斯曼的思想和發現的影響。最終的結果是一次科學上豐富的旅程，探索受特雷斯曼工作啟發的思想世界。貢獻的章節包括對聽覺和視覺注意力的討論、特徵在選擇中的角色、平行處理和串行處理，以及自動化的角色。它們描述了特徵整合理論及相關模型（如引導搜索）的根源和演變。它們探討了注意力和知覺在認知、神經心理學和生物學層面的相互作用。讀者可以考慮綁定在知覺中的關鍵角色、注意力在場景知覺中的作用，以及認知負荷、記憶、反思和知覺學習對早期和晚期處理的影響。他們將看到研究意識知覺意識的方法如何隨著時間的推移而演變。
Jeremy Wolfe, Professor of Ophthalmology and Radiology, Harvard Medical School, and Director of Visual Attention Lab, Brigham & Women's Hospital
Lynn Robertson, Senior Research Scientist, Veterans Administration and Professor, University of California, Berkeley, Berkley, CA
