avgref.m

function [data] = avgref(data, sel);

% AVGREF computes the average reference in each column
%   [data] = avgref(data)
%
% or it computes the re-referenced data relative to the
% average over the selected channels
%   [data] = avgref(data, sel)

% Copyright (C) 1998-2002, Robert Oostenveld
%
% This file is part of FieldTrip, see http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip
% for the documentation and details.
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% $Id: avgref.m 946 2010-04-21 17:51:16Z roboos $

% determine the dimension of the data
if length(size(data))==3
  % multiple epochs
  dim=3;
else
  % single epoch with multiple channels
  dim=2;
end

if nargin==1
  % default is to use all channels for average referencing
  if dim==3
    sel=1:size(data,2);
  else
    sel=1:size(data,1);
  end
end

if dim==3
  % the data contains multiple epochs
  for epoch=1:size(data,1)
    reference = mean(squeeze(data(epoch,sel,:)), 1);
    data(epoch,:,:) = squeeze(data(epoch,:,:)) - repmat(reference, size(data,2), 1);
  end
else
  % the data contains a single epoch
  reference = mean(data(sel,:), 1);
  data = data - repmat(reference, size(data,1), 1);
end