The '''featureFeature integrationIntegration theoryTheory''', a theory of attention developed in 1980 by [[Anne Treisman]] and [[Garry Gelade]], suggests that when perceiving a stimuli, features are "registered early, automatically, and in parallel, while objects are identified separately" and at a later stage in processing. The theory has been one of the most influential [[cognitive model|psychological model]]s of human visual [[attention]].