Saskia Haegens

Saskia Haegens is a neuroscientist with appointments at the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University, the Division of Systems Neuroscience at the New York State Psychiatric Institute, and the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior at Radboud University in Nijmegen. Haegens studies neural oscillations, including alpha and beta band rhythms, and their roles in sensory processing, perceptual decision-making, and working memory. Much of this work draws on electrophysiological recording, EEG, and computational approaches to examine how oscillatory dynamics in primate neocortex shape behavior across somatosensory, auditory, and visual domains. Recent publications from Haegens address questions about laminar profiles of cortical rhythms, beta bursts in working memory, and the relationship between prestimulus oscillatory activity and perceptual sensitivity.