Nilli Lavie

Professor Nilli Lavie FBA is Professor of Psychology and Brain Sciences at University College London’s Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, where she leads the Attention and Cognitive Control Group. Her research investigates the psychological and neural mechanisms underlying attention, distraction, visual awareness, executive control and the interaction between emotion and attention. She is internationally recognised for developing Load Theory of Attention and Cognitive Control, which examines how limited information-processing capacity shapes perception and behaviour. Professor Lavie uses behavioural experiments, neuroimaging and other cognitive neuroscience methods to investigate how the brain processes information and why we sometimes fail to notice important events. She was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2016.