[Eeglablist] why ICA is reference-free?

[Makoto Miyakoshi]

Dear Iman,

Did you check out this page?

http://sccn.ucsd.edu/wiki/Linear_Representations_and_Basis_Vectors#EEG_Data_
Reference_and_Re-referencing

Makoto


2014-03-17 16:30 GMT-07:00 Iman M.Rezazadeh <irezazadeh at ucdavis.edu>:

> Hi,
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> Could you please elaborate why ICA is reference-free? In other words, does
> different kinds of referencing methods (avg-ref or ...) effect on ICA maps
> and source series ?
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> Suppose: x(t) is the signal then we have s(t)=M(^-1). x(t) ;where s(t) is
> source signals and M is the mixing matrix.
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> Now how come for  y=x(t)-r(t) -  where r(t) is another reference-  result
> same/different maps and source series would be obtained and how could
> someone get the same dipole locations with different re-referencing methods?
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> It would be great if someone gives in depth *methodological and
> mathematical explanations* rather than just qualitative explanations.
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> Best
>
> Iman
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> *Iman M.Rezazadeh, Ph.D*
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> Research Fellow
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> Semel Intitute, UCLA , Los Angeles
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> & Center for Mind and Brain, UC DAVIS, Davis
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Makoto Miyakoshi
Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience
Institute for Neural Computation, University of California San Diego
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