For the late Anne M. Treisman, who reportedly died Friday, Feb. 9:
From "A Feature-Integration Theory of Attention" —
"The controversy between analytic and synthetic theories
of perception goes back many years: the Associationists
asserted that the experience of complex wholes is built
by combining more elementary sensations, while the
Gestalt psychologists claimed that the whole precedes
its parts, that we initially register unitary objects and
relationships, and only later, if necessary, analyze these
objects into their component parts or properties. This view
is still active now . . . ."
— Anne M. Treisman, University of British Columbia,
and Garry Gelade, Oxford University, in
Cognitive Psychology 12, 97-136 (1980)
"Before time began, there was the Cube." — Optimus Prime