Ann Treisman (1935–2018)

Anne Treisman Visual Feature Binding Requires Reentry

Reentrant processing has been proposed as a critical mechanism in feature binding. To test this claim, participants were shown arrays of six pairs of crossed vertical and horizontal bars. In each pair, one bar was white; one was red, green, or blue. Identifying the orientation, but not the color, of the nonwhite bar in the target item required correct binding. Four dots appeared around one of t...

Ann Harrison

ANN in High Dimensions

1.1 Hypercube and Hamming distance Definition 1.1 The set of points Hd = {0, 1} is the d-dimensional hypercube. A point p = (p1, . . . , pd) ∈ Hd can be interpreted, naturally, as a binary string p1p2 . . . pd. The Hamming distance dH(p, q) between p, q ∈ Hd, is the number of coordinates where p and q disagree. It is easy to verify that the Hamming distance comply with the triangle inequality, ...

Elizabeth Ann Morgenthien

Count data obtained in developmental toxicity-teratogenicity studies, such as the number of fetal deaths or the number of malformed fetuses per litter, are routinely analyzed by univariate statistical methods. Such methods ignore the dependence among the different outcomes that are measured in the study. Tests of significance based upon the individual outcomes may lead to incorrect conclusions ...

Ann-Shyn Chiang

The standfirst of the feature “Shining new light on the brain” (Curr. Biol. (2011), 21, R831–R833) stated that optogenetic control of neurons has only been around for six years. It has now come to our attention that the fundamental concept of targeting sensitivity to light to specific neurons, so that their electrical activity could be controlled optically, was established several years before ...