Olaf Dimigen

Olaf Dimigen is a tenured Assistant Professor of Experimental Psychology at the University of Groningen, Netherlands. Previously, he held a visiting professorship for Biological Psychology at Humboldt University Berlin (2018-2022) and conducted research at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development. His research focuses on understanding how the brain integrates eye movements with visual perception and cognition, leveraging EEG/eye-tracking co-registration and advanced signal analysis techniques.

• Key affiliations: Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences, Department of Experimental Psychology
• Education: PhD in Psychology from Humboldt University Berlin (2014)

Research interests include:

• Neural mechanisms of active vision
• Fixation-related potentials (FRPs) and microsaccade-related activity
• EEG artifact correction and deconvolution modeling
• Cross-linguistic reading processes
• Development of open-source analysis tools (EYE-EEG, UNFOLD, OPTICAT)

Selected contributions:

• Pioneered methods for analyzing temporally overlapping EEG signals using deconvolution (UNFOLD toolbox)
• Optimized ICA-based ocular artifact removal for free viewing EEG (OPTICAT method)
• Discovered cognitive modulation of microsaccade-related potentials as attention markers

His work bridges cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and computational methods, with applications in language processing, scene perception, and cultural neuroscience.