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Professor Nilli Lavie awarded grant to study driver attention and cognitive control when interacting with the autonomous car

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  • Professor Nilli Lavie awarded grant to study driver attention and cognitive control when interacting with the autonomous car

Congratulations to Professor Nilli Lavie (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience) who has been awarded a £1.87M grant, in collaboration with Cranfield engineering, from Jaguar Land Rover and the EPSRC as part of their new £11M autonomous vehicle research programme.

Lavie’s Attention and Cognitive Control lab at the ICN will research driver attention and cognitive control when interacting with the autonomous car. 

  • Read the full story on the UCL Enterprise website
  • find out more about this new research into autonomous vehicles on the EPSRC website

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