From: David Grosof
To: jeffrey epstein <jeevacation®gmail.com>
Subject: Fwd: [cvnet] Anne Treisman
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 17:09:03 +0000
An eulogy from an old friend of mine, Nancy Kanwisher (MIT neuroscientist).
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From: "Nancy Kanwisher"
Date: Feb 13, 2018 11:15 A 1
Subject: [cvnet] Anne Treisman
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I think much of the outpouring about Anne has happened on other lists but should be resent to the vision lists; I
am resending below the brief tribute I wrote for another list.
For those of you grieving and missing Anne I recommend the brief video here, which is just quintessential
Anne in the lucidity and depth of her explanation, her humility, and her charming joy in the ideas: https://
behavioralpolicy.princeton.edu/news/anne-treisman-1935-2018
From: Nancy Kanwisher
Subject: Anne Treisman
Date: February 11. 2018 at 1:46:52 PM EST
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The two enormous, defining privileges of my academic upbringing were the opportunities to work with Molly
Potter as a grad student and Anne Triesman as a postdoc.
Talk about role models; Wow!
Anne was a huge inspiration to me, indeed to all the cognitive psychologists of my generation.
As this group will know, she is responsible for an astonishing number of the foundational discoveries and ideas
in our field.
But she was also a generous and kind person.
To enable me to come to Berkeley, Anne battled extensively with the campus bureaucracy so that I could bring
my own grant (something the system was not set up to allow), she found space for me when her own lab was
itself tiny, and she did all of this before we had even met, and despite the fact that I had yet to even publish a
paper.
Anne also had a wry sense of humor that was all the more delightful coming from this otherwise reserved and
gracious giant of the field.
I remember us "kids" in the lab worrying about the latest attack on feature integration theory, and Anne just
responding with a mischeivous grin and a sparkle in her eye, saying: "Here we go again!".
I remember a star-struck graduate student approaching her at a conference and telling her about their obscure
psychophysical finding, and Anne saying: "What would you like, my blessing?"
I remember her reporting that when she first moved to California, and one of the very Californian
psychologists at Stanford asked her "What do you do for your body?", she replied "I feed it!".
What a huge loss for many of us personally, and for our field.
Nancy
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