Investigation of electrical brain activity related to movement: a review

The work is devoted to consideration of different problems which arise in studying of the movement-related brain activity. Changes in the cortex activity during performing of the movement both real and imagery represent neural networks formed for planning and performing of the particular motion. The review of possible preprocessing methods of the registered brain activity for increasing significance of extracted features are shown. Regularities and patterns which take place before and after movement onset are described. The methods that suitable for connectivity estimations in case of cortico-muscular relationships and in case of evaluations between brain regions are shown. In addition, possibility of movement classification and prediction together with reconstruction of kinematics features of the motion are considered.