Our research is frequently picked up by prominent UK and international media outlets.
Professor Lavie regularly contributes to major science television programs and is committed to effective science communication and public engagement.
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Selected Examples:
2020
07.08.2020 “The brain and
energy management” Radio
Canada National science weekly programme
04.08.2020 “People are oblivious to distractions when focusing on a specific task because the human brain has a 'limit' on how much information it can process at once” Daily Mail
03.08.2020 “Energy demands limit our brains
information-processing capacity” UCL
news
31.07.2020 “How to beat the afternoon energy slump” Times Education Supplement
28.07.2020 “You Can Blame ‘Load Theory’ for Turning Your Brain to Mush. A neuroscientist explains why we’re so easily distracted right now. “ Bloomberg News: Businessweek
26.02.2020 “Health tweaks to think yourself happier” Daily Mail
27.01.2020 “One ping after another: why everyone needs a notification detox” The Guardian
2019
13.08.2019 "Hands-free phone ban for drivers 'should be considered." BBC News
30.07.2019 "Dark mode isn't as good for your eyes as you believe" Wired
26.04.2019 "Does cognitive load theory deserve its cult following?" Times Education Supplement
04.03.2019 Interview on "Load theory of attention resolves a 35 year old debate"
'Here are the News' Israel Broadcast Corporation, channel 11
16.02.2019 “The Israeli psychologist that put an end to the 35 year old debate” Globes
21.01.2019 "This brain training app may help you stay focused, says new study" CNN
18.01.2019 "Focus: Less distraction, more clarity" (feature article and cover story) Geo
2018
12.10.2018 "To Communicate Effectively, We Must Match The Chosen Medium of
Engagement” Forbes
04.10.2018 “Brains
on cocktail party” Slovenia National Radio channel 1 Radio Prvi
10.09.2018 “Here's more evidence that multitasking might not work” From the grapevine Israel
01.09.2018 Struggling
to multitask? Your brain might have hit full capacity. New Scientist
29.05.2018 Distinct from intelligence or working memory your perceptual
capacity predicts how susceptible you
are to inattentional blindness BPS research digest
10.10.2017 How to concentrate in an open‑plan office The Times
08.10.2017 "Driverless cars can transform cities by 2025, says Toyota" The Times
25.09.2017 "Five ways science can improve your focus"
BBC 17.05.2017 “7 ways to tame your wandering mind and achieve better focus”
New Scientist 12.02.2017 "A neuroscientist explains: how we perceive the truth - podcast." The Guardian
05.09.2016 “Change blindness: can you spot the difference?” Guardian
10.06.2016 “How to deal with distraction in an attention economy”
ABC News
28.02.2016 “Conversations really do fall on deaf ears when you are texting: Research shows your brain is to blame as it stops you listening when using smartphones” Mail Online
20.02.2016 “The weird way looking at your phone can mess with your hearing”.
Fox News
09.02.2016 "How good are you at concentrating? Take the test" The Telegraph
09.02.2016 "Visual teaser tests just how distracted you are"
NBC News
09.02.2016 "How quickly can you spot the two 'O's in these puzzles? It could reveal how strong your concentration levels
07.02.2016 "How good are you at concentrating?" The Guardian
2015
16.12.2015 “The dangers of texting while parenting”
PBS Newshour
16.12.2015 Bob Hirshon Podcast: Inattentional Deafness. AAAS Science
15.12.2015 "Distractibility trait predisposes some to attentional lapses" APS News
15.12.2015 "New
trait explains why some people are more easily distracted than others" UCL News
09.12.2015 "Why youngsters zone out when playing computer games" - The Daily Telegraph (in print, page 13)
09.12.2015 "Deaf to the World" - The Times (in print, page 22)
09.12.2015 " Staring at your phone screen can make you temporarily 'deaf'" Tech Insider
09.12.2015 "Zoning out: Teenagers really can't hear you when playing computer games" Daily Express
09.12.2015 " Smart Phones Actually Cause Temporary Deafness ” Mirror Daily
09.12.2015 " There's a Scientific Reason Why You're Ignoring People, Study Says " TIME
09.12.2015 " Momentary deafness can occur due to excessive concentration on visual task" Business Standard
09.12.2015 "Focusing On A Task May Leave You Temporarily Deaf: Study" Tech Times
09.12.2015 "Why
focusing on a visual task will make us deaf to our surroundings" UCL News
08.12.2015 " Why you can get away with not hearing your partner while you're flicking through Facebook on your phone" Telegraph
08.12.2015 " Your brain can't swipe and hear at the same time, scans show" Today
08.12.2015 "Why your man can't watch TV and chat at the same time: Focusing on visual tasks leaves people deaf to sounds around them" Daily Mail
08.12.2015 Can you hear me now? Study: Screens can interfere with hearing Good Morning America 08.12.2015 "Watch Out! Visual Concentration Can Leave You Temporarily 'Deaf' " ABC News
17.11.2015 "Time to focus and take our diversion quiz?" The Sun
05.11.2015 " Apparently We Spend Over A Quarter Of Our Time Being Distracted" MarieClaire
04.11.2015 "Is your mobile making YOU unhappy ? Checking phones eats up 15 per cent of our leisure time and affects our mood" Daily Mail
2014
20.11. 2014 “Zen and the Art of Cubicle Living” The Atlantic
16.10.2014 “Concentrate! How to tame a wandering mind” BBC.COM
04.10.2014 “Special Report: The Human Mind – A User’s Guide: Attention.” New scientist feature article and cover story.
01.10.2014 “Mind expanding: How to hack your attention span” New Scientist
13.08.2014 “Blind für die Umwelt: Multitasking überfordert Kinder”. Der Spielgel
07.06.2014 "Inattentional deafness: won't listen or can't listen?" Daily Telegraph
27.05.2014 (first aired) “All in the mind” BBC Radio 4 - Program centered on visual overload. Listen now
25.05.2014 “Why
children can't see what's right in front of them” BBC News - Ranked as 1st top story
15.05.2014 “How to power down a busy mind” Yahoo News
03.05.2014 “Watch out: children more prone to looking but not seeing”. Health Canal
02.05.2014 “Watch
out: Children more prone to looking but not seeing” UCL news
02.05.2014
“Your kids may not be ignoring you on purpose” Yahoo
News
30.04.2014 “Watch out: Children more prone to looking but not seeing”. ScienceDaily
30.04.2014 “Watch out: Children more prone to looking but not seeing”.
Medical Express
28.04.2014 "5 ways to power down a busy mind" Oprah
17.03.2014 “Why it's not that dim
to bump into a lamp-post” Daily Mail
17.03.2014 “Information overload acts ‘to dim the lights’ on what we see” UCL News
2013
20.11.2013 "Why do I overlook the obvious". Naked Scientists, Cambridge.
2.09.2013 “Inattention is a major fact in road accidents”
“ABC Radio National
Australia” Health Report” Interview
20.08.2013 “Daydreamers are distracted by EVERYTHING - not
just their own thoughts” Mail
Online
16.07.2013 “Terror in the skies series,
episode 2: pilot error” Channel 4
21.03.2013 “How to avoid mistakes
in medical surgery” BBC
Horizon
21.03.2013 “What we can learn from fatal
mistakes in surgery” BBC news
16.02.2013 “Why do radiologists miss
dancing gorillas?” BBC
News
2012
30.12.2012 “Sat-navs blind drivers to road ahead as they
'hold the image in their mind'” Mail
Online
29.11.2012
“Sat-navs ‘could be dangerous’, study claims, warning of ‘road blindness’” Metro
28.11.2012
“Sat navs can 'blind'
drivers to the road” DailyTelegraph
01.10.2012 “Study
reveals how memory load leaves us ‘blind’ to new visual information” Wellcome
Trust News
03.08.2012 “'Inattention
blindness' due to brain load” Medical
Express
17.07.2012 “Inattention
blindness' due to brain load” UCL news,
06.06.2012 “The
curious case of Sherlock Holmes and perceptual load” The Psychologist.
27.05.2012 “'Selectively
deaf' husbands might have a point” Daily
Telegraph News
01.05.2012 “UK doctors blast McDonalds’ Olympic
sponsorship” Fox
News
01.05.2012 “UK docs rip food, drink sponsorship” ESPN
News
18.04.2012 “Will
adverts at the Olympics increase fast food consumption?” BBC News
03.04.2012 “Study:
People with autism better at processing information” – Welcome Trust News CBS News Science Daily
01.04.2012 “Thinking
smarter about people who think differently” Wired Magazine
31.03.2012 “The Upside of Autism” The Wall Street Journal
18.01.2012 “Hey, did you hear? …Why we don’t listen!” Scientific
American
2011
11.08.2011 “The illusion of attention The Guardian Science news”,
08.06.2011 "Our gadgets make us 'deaf' to the world, study confirms" NBC News
27.05.2011
“Lost in a book? How reading and doing crosswords can block your ability to
hear” Mail
Online
27.05.2011 “How our focus can silence the noisy world
around us” Wellcome Trust News
27.05.2011
“How our focus can silence the noisy world around us” British Neuroscience Association
27.05.2011 “'Selectively
deaf' husbands might have a point” Daily
Telegraph
27.05.2011 “Are you paying attention? Reading this
could make you ‘deaf’ to the world around you” The
Mirror
27.05.2011 “How our focus can silence the noisy world
around us” The
Independent
27.05.2011 “How our focus can silence the noisy world
around us” MSNBC.com
27.05.2011 “How our focus can silence the noisy world
around us” Money
Times
27.05.2011 “How our focus can silence the noisy world
around us” Men’s
Health US.
27.05.2011 “How our focus can silence the noisy world
around us” Radio 5
live interview
27.05.2011 “The downside of concentration: it can make
you deaf” National
Post
28.04.2011
Feature article on attention. Die Zeit
12.11.2010 “People spend 'half their
waking hours daydreaming“ BBC News
17.03.2010 “Can brain scans help
companies sell more?” BBC
News
28.09.2009 ” Key to subliminal messaging
is to keep it negative, study shows”. BBC
News
28.09.2009
“Subliminal advertising really does
work, claim scientists” DailyTelegraph
28.09.2009
“Power of the hidden message revealed” The Independent
28.09.2009
“Negative subliminal messages more effective” CBS
News
28.09.2009
”Key to subliminal messaging is to keep it negative, study shows”. Radio 4 PM
hour.
28.09.2009 Key to subliminal messaging
is to keep it negative, study shows”. Wellcome
Trust ‘news and features’
09.06.2009 “No room for daydreaming:
harnessing the ever-wandering mind.” Wellcome Trust ‘news and features’
24.03.2009 Brain waves 'foreshadow mistakes' BBC News
03.04.2009 “New test targets employees
with wandering minds” Globe and Mail,
11.02.2009 Feature
article “volle Konzentration” Zeit Wissen (Die Zeit scientific magazine),
Germany
01.12.2008 (First Aired) Discovery Channel “Weird Connections”: The invisible Gorilla episode. A
full-length episode describing how ‘load theory’ accounts for failures of
visual perception by car drivers and pilots.
09.05.2008
"Internazionale" Italy
06.02.2008 “Ask the expert: What
distracts us” Prof. Lavie Zeit Wissen (Die Zeit scientific
magazine) Germany
02.06.2007 Israel
National Radio interview
31.05.2007 BBC 5 Live Radio interview
30.05.2007 BBC 3 Counties Radio interview
30.05.2007 Irish Talk Radio interview
18.12.2007 “Concentration on the Job May Call for Distractions” The
Wall Street Journal
15.12.2007 “Focus, focus, focus” New Scientist feature article and
cover story
02.06.2007
“Have I got News
for you, BBC1” (covering the use of distraction measure as an
employee selection test)
31.05.2007 “Distraction test for job
seekers” Channel 4 News
30.05.2007 “Test to find easily
distracted workers” Daily Telegraph
30.05.2007
UCL scientist develops a measure of distraction UCL News
29.05.2007 “Employee test spots
inattention'” BBC News
2006
24.12.2005 “Flogging a dead horse” New Scientist
01.09.2005 “Blind for the change” Der Spiegel
27.08.2005 “How card sharps fool the
best of us” New Scientist
26.08.2005 “Science in Action” BBC
Radio 4 Worldservice
24.08.2005 “Why we can miss 'obvious' sights” BBC
News
29.07.2005 “Watch my hands deceive you” BBC
News
01.12.2005
“Hocus Focus” Discover
2002
03.04.2002 Short documentary on “change blindness” Sky Digital
02.03.2002
“Discussions of the neural correlates of attention.” BBC Radio 4
2002 “Inattention
leads to change blindness” UCL Science
2001
01.04.2001
“Working with distraction” Nature Reviews Neuroscience
02.03.2001
“Taxi chatter a road hazard?” Daily Telegraph
02.03.2001
“Working memory helps focus the mind” Science
