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Professor Nilli Lavie FBA

Psychological and neural mechanisms of attention, awareness, working memory and cognitive control; Load theory: the effects of information-processing load on attention, perception, and cognition; emotion effects on attention and perception
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2016
Subjects
Psychology
Sections
Psychology
Website
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/icn/people/nilli-lavie

Current post

Professor of Psychology and Brain Sciences, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London

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