Salient auditory stimuli evoke spatially segregated phasic and sustained neural responses in the human brain
Siddhartha Joshi, Mensure Polat, Daniel C Chai, Sofia Pantis, Ritika Garg, Vivek Buch, Ashwin G. Ramayya
The paper examines neural responses to salient auditory stimuli using intracranial electrodes, finding two distinct temporal stages of activation: phasic sensorimotor and sustained salience network responses.
bioRxiv · Apr 20, 2026 · PreprintNeuroscience