Identifying voluntary components of human movement-related cortical potential associated with finger movements using wavelet transform

Electroencephalogram (EEG) has been generally known as a non-destructive method to examine the function of human brain. This paper presents to identify time frequency components of Movement-Related Cortical Potential (MRCP) associated with the human voluntary muscle behaviors using Wavelet transform. The EEG was recorded with the 5-channel referential derivations, Fz,Cz,C3,C4,Pz, referenced to the right earlobe based on the international 10-20 system. The voluntary activity was recorded with the electrode placed on the palm side of the metacarpophalangeal joint when the subjects flexed the right- or left-hand index finger respectively and eyes closed. I have found the insights into the temporal dynamics of MRCP. The difference between the right and the left finger movements by the right-handed subjects in the time-frequency domain was shown in this study.