It is clear that he has no intention of doing so and I have therefore written to the Chairman of the 1922 Committee of Backbench Conservative MPs, advising him that I have no confidence in the Prime Minister as Leader of the Conservative Party. (2/3)

New results from Effort Lab at UCL! We show how failure to attenuate task irrelevant sensory input contributes to post stroke fatigue. This applies to visual biorxiv.org/content/10.110… auditory biorxiv.org/content/10.110… and also proprioceptive input biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Is distractor suppression by the alpha rhythm mainly driven by distractor anticipation OR perceptual load? 🥁🥁🥁The latter! 🎆Read our MEG study from The Centre for Human Brain Health in collaboration with the great Nilli Lavie just out in Progress in Neurobiology doi.org/10.1016/j.pneu…

Nilli Lavie appeared in an interview on Yahoo News "Signs You May Have Asperger's and Not Know It" You can read it here⬇️news.yahoo.com/signs-may-aspe…

Can teachers get started with implementing evidence-informed practices such as quizzes to enhance retrieval, or cartoons to capture pupils' attention, without worrying too much about the nuances? Not really! Read more at the Tes magazine article tes.com/magazine/teach… by Mike Hobbiss

"When you find ways that help you concentrate, it can feel as though you’ve hit the jackpot": Prof Nilli Lavie UCL Brain Sciences UCL Psych & Lang Sci shares how listening to white, brown and pink noise can improve concentration and reduce anxiety dailymail.co.uk/health/article…

Here I speak about a few scientific principles behind the effects of different types of noise on attention mol.im/a/11478319 via Mail Online

New pre-print with Nilli Lavie on the development of adolescents' attention abilities, and their relationship to distraction in school classrooms

Returning from Zurich to London on strike (airport security officers replaced by soldiers)

Tracking drivers’ eyes can determine their ability to take back control from ‘auto-pilot’ mode, finds a team led by Prof Nilli Lavie UCL ICN @uclpals, who have developed a method to determine drivers' attention levels & readiness to respond to warnings ucl.ac.uk/news/2023/aug/…

As I was driving to work this morning, being stuck in traffic I was thinking how much more enjoyable it would be for my car to have a 'driverless' mode (as in exists Germany and some US states already). But is it safe? ucl.ac.uk/news/2023/aug/…

New study tracking drivers’ eyes to determine their ability to take back control from self-driving cars after an audio cue. Finding: be careful… UCL ICN Nilli Lavie UCL News CR:PI paper: bit.ly/3L83lua

Nilli Lavie and I looked at the development of attention control skills across adolescence and into early adulthood... - Sustained attention gradually developed from early to late adolescence, and adulthood. - Selective attention was already mature by early adolescence.

THEN (the part I am most excited about as a teacher), we find that both sustained and selective attention task performance CAN PREDICT REAL EXPERIENCES OF DISTRACTION IN SCHOOL CLASSROOMS.. even controlling for interest, cognitive abilities and a range of other factors

To our knowledge this is the first time that task measures have successfully predicted classroom distraction experiences in secondary school age students.

Does daydreaming has a toll on our mental energy? together with Ilias Tachtsidis we used adavnced optical imaging and showed that it does. Read more about it here: institutions.newscientist.com/article/mg2613…

Does daydreaming have a toll on our mental energy? together with Ilias Tachtsidis we used adavnced optical imaging and showed that it does. Read more about it here: institutions.newscientist.com/article/mg2613…

Ever wondered whether daydreaming takes a toll on our mental energy? Together with Ilias Tachtsidis we used advanced optical imaging and showed that it does. Read more about it here: institutions.newscientist.com/article/mg2613…

Do word-based puzzles have benefits for our brains? 📝 Prof Nilli Lavie explains the science. buff.ly/UqqE2dx