“…Across human studies, omission responses obtained by employing slow-rhythm and non-rhythmic protocols require either an attention-driven increase in neuronal gain (Motz et al, 2013;Hernández and Hernández-Sánchez, 2017), multimodal projections to local circuitry (McIntosh et al, 1998;Nittono, 2005;den Ouden et al, 2009;SanMiguel et al, 2013a,b;Stekelenburg and Vroomen, 2015;van Laarhoven et al, 2017van Laarhoven et al, , 2020Dercksen et al, 2020), or other forms of naturalistic (Lehmann et al, 2016) or behavioral relevance (Woerd et al, 2017;Aitken et al, 2020) of the omitted stimulus, in order to be detectable. In fact, attentional and top-down modulation of local circuitry can produce the synchronized activity of large neuronal populations necessary to produce detectable EEG responses to stimuli.…”