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Dr. Ing. Erik van der Burg is a Research Associate at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, affiliated with the Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences and the APH - Mental Health department. His research focuses on how individuals with and without autism process sensory information through modalities like vision, hearing, touch, and taste, with a particular emphasis on multisensory perception and cognitive psychology. He employs methodologies such as psychophysics, functional infrared thermal imaging (fITI), EEG, eye-tracking, machine learning, and skin conductance. He collaborates with the Netherlands Autism Register (NAR), a longitudinal cohort study, to improve support systems for autistic individuals.
Research interests include multisensory integration, autism spectrum disorder, sensory processing, and the application of artificial intelligence in understanding perception. His work spans cognitive flexibility in autism, visual search mechanisms, and the impact of multisensory cues on food perception. Recent studies explore attentional tunneling in pilots, audiovisual synchrony perception, and machine learning tools for camouflage assessment.
Dr. van der Burg has contributed to 130+ publications and 42 activities, including lectures on visual crowding and EEG biomarkers. He has been featured in 30 media contributions discussing dating app psychology and sensory perception. His datasets, such as contributions to the Face familiarity study, are publicly available on platforms like Figshare.
