Feature selection for brain-computer interfaces [Elektronische Ressource] / vorgelegt von Michael W. Tangermann

Feature Selection forBrain-Computer InterfacesDissertationder Fakultät für Informations- und Kognitionswissenschaftender Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingenzur Erlangung des Grades einesDoktors der Naturwissenschaften(Dr. rer. nat.)vorgelegt vonDipl.-Inform. Michael W. Tangermannaus BerlinTübingen2007Tag der mündlichen Prüfung: 11.7.2007Dekan Prof. Dr. Michael Diehl1. Berichterstatter: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Rosenstiel2. Prof. Dr. Bernhard Schölkopf (MPI Tübingen)Dedicated to the patients.AcknowledgmentThe author would like to thank Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Rosenstiel and all the collegues in Tübingen and Berlin for fruitfuldiscussions, for support and funding of the BCI project. Special thanks go to my project partners Navin Lal, JeremyHill and Prof. Dr. Bernhard Schölkopf at the MPI Tübingen as well as to Dr. Thilo Hinterberger and Prof. Dr. NielsBirbaumer at the Institut für medizinische Psychologie und Verhaltensneurobiologie Tübingen for the long and fruitfulinterdisciplinary collaboration on this difficult field we work on. Thanks goes also to Ulrike Romberg, my students at theUniversity of Tübingen that performed restless data processing and to Bernd Battes and Prof. Dr. Kuno Kirschfeld fortheir support with the EEG recordings. The work was kindly supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFGunder the SFB 550, B5 and grant RO 1030/12, and by the National Institute of Health (D.31.03765.2).