Induced brain activity as indicator of cognitive processes [Elektronische Ressource] : experimental methodical analyses and algorithms for online applications / von Daniel Pérez Marcos

Induced Brain Activity as Indicator of Cognitive Processes: Experimental-Methodical Analyses and Algorithms for Online Applications Dissertation zur Erlangung des akademischen Grades Doktoringenieur (Dr.-Ing.) vorgelegt der Fakultät für Informatik und Automatisierung der Technischen Universität Ilmenau von Dipl.-Ing. Daniel Pérez Marcos Gutachter: 1. Prof. Dr. -Ing. habil. Günter Henning 2. Chefarzt Doz. Dr. med. habil. Reinhard Both 3. Ph.D. Enrique Guijarro Estellés Tag der Einreichung: 07.02.2006 Tag der wissenschaftlichen Aussprache: 09.03.2007 urn:nbn:de:gbv:ilm1-2007000034 Acknowledgement i Acknowledgement I have to thank many people, who have helped me in one way or another to finish this work. First, several persons from the Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Informatics at the Technische Universität Ilmenau deserve to be mentioned here: I would like to thank Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Günter Henning for assuming the direction of this thesis and making my continuity at his institute possible; I want to express my special thanks to Dr.-Ing. Galina Ivanova, the leader of the NeuroCybernetics Research Group (NCRG), for the technical supervision and interesting discussions as well as her incessant and invaluable support during the last years; I thank Dr. Ing. Mehmet Eylem Kirlangic and Sylvi Herzog, the other half of the NCRG, for the helpful advices and suggestions; and Dipl.-Ing. Maria Franczyk and Dipl.-Ing.