Sudden and isolated sensory stimuli (SISS) likely signal environmental events demanding immediate behavioural responses. These stimuli-which are widely and persistently used in both basic and clinical neuroscience to explore sensory processing and perception-also trigger some of the largest and most widespread electrocortical responses in the awake mammalian brain. These responses are often...
Abstract How does the human brain generate coherent, subjective perceptions—transforming yellow and oblong visual sensory information into the perception of an edible banana? This is a hard problem. According to the standard viewpoint, processing in groups of dedicated regions—identified as active “blobs” when using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)—gives rise to perception. Here, we...