Attentional dynamics before coordinated eye and hand movements

Abstract

I would like to thank Heiner Deubel for his supervision, guidance and advice, which helped to shape the present work. I also thank him for sparking my interest in pursuing the re-search path. I must also thank Torsten Schubert and Andreas Straube for their advice and discussions during my PhD. I thank Patrick Cavanagh for an invitation to his lab which proved extremely useful. Many of the ideas and directions of the work presented here were affected by discussions with my fellow friends, Martin Rolfs, Michael Hegenloh, Dra-gan Rangelov and Saurabh Dhawan. I also wish to express my gratitude to GRK 1091 and Graduate School of Systemic Neuroscience, without whose financial support this work would not have been possible, to participants JP, SB, VS & BT who did almost every single experiment presented in this thesis and Birgitt Assfalg who helped with data collection. Last, but not least, I thank family in Lithuania and my friends in Munich who made my