Steffen Bürgers

School of Psychology
Doctoral Researcher

Contact details

Email: sxb1173@bham.ac.uk

Address: School of Psychology
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Steffen Bürgers is undertaking doctoral research into multisensory perceptual decision-making in the auditory and visual domains. He analyses electroencephalography and psychophysics data, and applies computational modeling techniques to uncover the dynamics of cross-modal perceptual decision-making.

Qualifications

BSc in Psychology at Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience at Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

Biography

Steffen Bürgers acquired his bachelors degree in psychology and masters degree in cognitive neuroscience at the University of Groningen.

Doctoral research

PhD title: Multisensory perceptual decision-making

Research

Research interests

Multisensory perception and decision-making, neural oscillations, drift-diffusion models

Publications

Storzer, L., Burgers, S., & Hirschmann, J. (2015). Are Beta Phase-Coupled High-Frequency Oscillations and Beta Phase-Locked Spiking Two Sides of the Same Coin? Journal of Neuroscience, 35(5), 1819–1820. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4647-14.2015