Metabolic brain-computer interfaces [Elektronische Ressource] / vorgelegt von Ranganatha Sitaram

Aus dem Institut für Medizinische Psychologie der Universität Tübingen Direktor: Professor Dr. N. Birbaumer Metabolic Brain-Computer Interfaces Inaugural-Dissertation zur Erlangung des Doktorgrades der Humanwissenschaften der Medizinischen Fakultät der Eberhard-Karls-Universität zu Tübingen vorgelegt von Ranganatha Sitaram aus Harihar/Indien 2010 Dekan: Professor Dr. I. B. Auterieth 1. Berichterstatter: Professor Dr. N. Birbaumer 2. Berichterstatter: Professor Dr. B. Pichler 2 To my mother and late father. 3 Acknowledgements First and foremost, I would like to express my deepest gratitude to Prof. Dr. Niels Birbaumer who was instrumental in my moving to Tuebingen 4 years ago and thus enabled me to do this research. From the day in early 2004 in Singapore when I first expressed my interest to work with him to this day his kindness, ready wit and a certain zeal for scientific investigation has inspired and motivated me. Without his characteristic generosity, openness to ideas and freedom afforded by him at work my move to research in cognitive neuroscience would never have been possible. I’m also ever so grateful to the secretary Angela Straub whose help and assistance made my family’s stay in Tuebingen possible. My heartiest thanks to my second supervisor and former director Dr.