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Nilli Lavie is a Professor of Psychology and Brain Sciences and Director of the (Attention and Cognitive Control laboratory ) at the University College London Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience. She is an elected Fellow of the American Psychological Society, elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology, and elected Fellow of the British Psychological Society. She is also an honorary life member of the UK Experimental Psychology Society. She is known for providing a resolution the 40 year debate on the role attention in information processing and as the creator of the Perceptual load theory of attention, perception and cognitive control. == Biography and Education == Prior to her academic career, Lavie was a well-known night-lifer in Tel Aviv Israel. She made various media appearances in both film (in the Lemon Popsicle film series and ‘A Message from the future’) and fashion (including modelling Fiorucci, Dunlop and Merci Tights), and was a long-term partner of Israeli poet, artist filmmaker, publicist and "playwright" David Avidan. Lavie obtained BA Degrees in Psychology and in Philosophy from Tel Aviv University, where she also completed a PhD in Cognitive Psychology. In the mid-nineties she was the first (and is still the only) psychologist to receive the prestigious Miller fellowship for postdoctoral training at UC Berkeley, which she held in Anne Treisman’s laboratory. Following her postdoctoral training, she moved to the UK where she married the late Jon Driver and held her first faculty job at the MRC-Applied Psychology Unit (now the Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit), Cambridge, UK. In late 1995 she joined UCL where she currently works and has written over 100 scientific papers. She has received a British Psychological Society Cognitive Section Award for outstanding contribution to research on Human Cognition (2006). In 2011, she was selected as an "inspirational woman" in the WiSE (Women into Science, Engineering and Construction) campaign, received the Mid-Career Award from the Experimental Psychology Society. She was named an academic champion at UCL (PALS division) and invited to give the first lecture at their inauguration. She also (2012) and was selected as an academic role model at UCL Faculty of Life Sciences (2012) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nilli Lavie」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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