This makes sense because during wakefulness, it is easy to take in sensory stimuli.
Additionally, stress of any kind usually increases sensitivity to sensory stimuli.
An evoked potential is the electrical response of the brain to a sensory stimulus.
Some animals may also intake and interpret sensory stimuli in very different ways.
It offers a lot of sensory stimuli that's pretty potent.
The most efficient way to accomplish this is for the brain to pay attention to all sensory stimuli.
Whatever sensory stimuli are attended to can be declared knowledge.
The testing of intelligence is therefore based on studying the responses to sensory stimuli.
For the next five hours I lay in my tent trying to avoid sensory stimuli of any kind.
The moon effect, therefore, is applicable only to isolated sensory stimuli.