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Acknowledgements The results presented in this thesis were obtained during my employment as a scientific coworker at the The colleagues at EELE for the good working atmosphere. The students who supported me with their projects.

ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I express my gratitude to my thesis advisor Dr. Brian Nutter for his patient teaching and firm support. I also thank the other members in my committee: Dr.

I hereby declare that my thesis entitled " Emotional modulation of motor memory formation " is the result of my own work. I did not receive any help or support from commercial consultants. All sources and/or material applied are listed and specified in the thesis. Furthermore, I verify that this thesis has not yet been submitted as part of another examination process neither in identical nor in...

i Acknowledgements I would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge all the people who helped me during this thesis work. Firstly I would like to thank my advisor, Dr. Carolyn J. Crouch for her invaluable guidance, timely advice and support. I would like to thank my committee members Dr. Donald B. Crouch and Dr. Todd W. Loushine for their suggestions and feedback during the important stages...

ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I feel privileged to have had the opportunity to work on this project. I would like to thank Dr. Tyler for serving as my advisor as well as Drs. Priya Vashishta, Rajiv Kalia, and Aiichiro Nakano for their support, encouragement and advice. I would like to sincerely thank Dr. serving on my thesis committee. I would like to thank my mother Verna Lee for her help in preparing t...

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This is to certify that the thesis/dissertation prepared By Entitled For the degree of Is approved by the final examining committee: Chair To the best of my knowledge and as understood by the student in the Research Integrity and Copyright Disclaimer (Graduate School Form 20), this thesis/dissertation adheres to the provisions of Purdue University's " Policy on Integrity in Research " and the u...

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............................................................................................. 7 SVENSK SAMMANFATTNING ............................................................. 9 PAPERS INCLUDED IN THE THESIS ............................................... 11 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS .................................................................... 13 ABBREVIATIONS ..................................