Tactile feature processing and attentional modulation in the human somatosensory system [Elektronische Ressource] / Evelin Wacker. Betreuer: Felix Blankenburg

Tactile Feature Processing andAttentional Modulation in the HumanSomatosensory Systemvorgelegt vonDiplom-BioinformatikerinEvelin Wackeraus IlmenauVon der Fakultät IV - Elektrotechnik und Informatikder Technischen Universität Berlinzur Erlangung des akademischen GradesDoktorin der NaturwissenschaftenDr. rer. nat.genehmigte DissertationPromotionsausschuss:Vorsitzender: Prof. Dr. Klaus ObermayerBerichter: Prof. Dr. Klaus-Robert MüllerBerichter: Prof. Dr. Felix WichmannBerichter: Dr. Felix BlankenburgTag der wissenschaftlichen Aussprache: 29.11.2011Berlin 2011D 83AcknowledgementsThe research for this doctoral thesis was carried out in the Junior ResearchGroup “Neuroimaging and Neurocomputation” headed by Dr. Felix Blanken-burg. Besides him, many people supported me professionally as well as person-ally throughout my research. Without their help, this thesis would not havebeen accomplished.First, I would like to thank Dr. Felix Blankenburg for providing me theopportunity to do my doctoral research in his group and for supporting me inall aspects of my work. I very much appreciated his excellent supervision andhis inspiring ideas, on which I gratefully seized for my research. Many thanksfurther go to Prof. Dr. Felix Wichmann, who provided me helpful advice andsupervised my work as second expert. In addition, I am grateful to Prof. Dr.Klaus-Robert Müller for agreeing to act as referee at such short notice.I also want to thank Prof. Dr.