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Kahneman’s wife, Anne Treisman, was an expert in which field?

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Anne Treisman was a cognitive psychologist, and was the wife of Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman. Treisman's research focused on visual attention, and she developed a model of attention called the "feature integration theory". This theory proposed that attention is a process of selecting certain features of a visual scene, and that these features are then integrated into a single perception.
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