[Eeglablist] Why average reference for ICA?

[Andreas Pedroni]

Dear Makoto

Thank you very much for your reply. That makes all sense. However, I don’t understand why performing average referencing after ICA is not recommended? Do you mean by this that you should not re-reference data after preprocessing with ICA at all? Or do I misunderstand this point? Thank you!

All the best
Andreas


> Am 31.07.2018 um 19:16 schrieb Makoto Miyakoshi <mmiyakoshi at ucsd.edu>:
> 
> Dear Andreas,
> 
> > Is there a particular reason for this? Is there anything wrong in doing ICA on EEG referenced to a single channel? 
> 
> Average referencing is to impose zero-sum assumption to channel data. ICA result does not get affected by this, except DC differences. In other words, if you don't apply average reference, some of your IC scalp topographies could be all read or all blue.
> 
> Overall, I would rate the importance of average referencing before ICA not very high. It's just a minor issue even if you forgot to do so, most of your IC scalp topos are fine. However, if you perform average referencing after ICA, that may cause various problems so not recommended. If you forgot to perform average reference and finished lengthy ICA process which you can't do again for short of time, just forget it and proceed with what you have.
> 
> > my idea was to compute the ICA on 1 Hz filtered (and average referenced) data and apply the selection of ICs to the same unfiltered (and average referenced) data. 
> 
> If you mean you copy the ICA weight matrices to do so, yes it is a common practice.
> 
> Makoto
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 2:29 AM Andreas Pedroni <andreas.pedroni at uzh.ch <mailto:andreas.pedroni at uzh.ch>> wrote:
> Dear Makoto, dear EEGLAB list
> 
> I came across several sources where it is suggested to use average referenced data to perform ICA (including your very helpful discussion about preprocessing https://sccn.ucsd.edu/wiki/Makoto%27s_preprocessing_pipeline <https://sccn.ucsd.edu/wiki/Makoto's_preprocessing_pipeline>). Is there a particular reason for this? Is there anything wrong in doing ICA on EEG referenced to a single channel?
> 
> In addition, I have the goal to apply ICA on (1 Hz filtered) data with the purpose to get rid of artifacts (using MARA), but apply the clean ICs on unfiltered data to keep lower frequencies than 1 Hz. Based on your comments, my idea was to compute the ICA on 1 Hz filtered (and average referenced) data and apply the selection of ICs to the same unfiltered (and average referenced) data. Is that the way to go, or are there other suggestions? 
> 
> Thanks and all the best
> 
> Andreas
> 
> Andreas Pedroni
> Psychologisches Institut
> Methoden der Plastizitätsforschung
> Andreasstrasse 15, AND 4.58
> CH-8050 Zürich
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> 
> 
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