A two-system theory of sensory-evoked brain responses.
Brain : a journal of neurology May 5, 2026 Richard Somervail, Sofija Perovic, Rory John Bufacchi et al.
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...