The animate - inanimate distinction in visuomotor coordination [Elektronische Ressource] : perceptuomotor crosstalk in the presence and absence of biological topography and biological kinematics / vorgelegt von Mathias Hegele
The Animate - Inanimate Distinction inVisuomotor CoordinationPerceptuomotor Crosstalk in the Presence and Absence ofBiological Topography and Biological Kinematicsvorgelegt vonMathias Hegele, M.A.aus Neuwied am RheinVon der Fakultat 14 { Humanwissenschaften und Theologieder Technischen Universitat Dortmundzur Erlangung des akademischen GradesDoktor der Philosophie{ Dr. phil. {genehmigte DissertationBerichter: Prof. Dr. Herbert HeuerProf. Dr. Klaus RothTag der wissenschaftlichen Aussprache: 16.10.2009Dortmund 2009iiAcknowledgementsTo my parents, Elisabeth & Anton,To my grandmother, Regina,To the most wonderful human being, my wife Rebecca,I gratefully dedicate this thesis.I would like to thank my advisor Professor Herbert Heuer for his continuoussupport, and for all the time, e ort and thought he invested in my training.I enjoyed every brain storming session we had together and look forward tomany more to come.Thanks to Professor Klaus Roth and Professor Wilfried Kunde for readingthis gathering of thoughts and data, and for being so kind about it.I would like to express my gratitude to the Deutsche Forschungsgemein-schaft for funding my PhD-position within the Priority Program 1184 "Age-Di erentiated Working Systems".I would also like to thank all my colleagues and former student research assis-tants at the Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and HumanFactors in Dortmund for their support of this work.