[2] In the mid-nineties she received the Miller fellowship for postdoctoral training at UC Berkeley, which she held in Anne Treisman's laboratory.

[3] She has received a British Psychological Society Cognitive Section Award for outstanding contribution to research in 2006.

[6] Lavie's research[7][8][9][10][11] concerns the effects of information load on brain mechanisms, psychological functions (perception, conscious awareness, memory and emotion) and behaviour.

[10][12] Lavie originally proposed the Load Theory in the mid-nineties[7] to resolve the "Locus of Attentional Selection" debate.

The theory made an important contribution to the understanding of the impact of attention on information processing, visual perception and awareness.