In other words, a discrete startling event is represented by simultaneous co-activation of various episodic cells at that single moment.
Police have little doubt that they were racist attacks.Two days after the Brick Lane bombing, an even more startling event took place.
In a third — the most startling event in the piece — she stands astride his shoulders as he kneels and stretches one arm upward and repeatedly slaps her breastbone, hard.
The nuclear test, announced on 6 January, was called a "world-startling event" in a government statement, which also described the US as a "gang of cruel robbers" and a pack of "ferocious wolves".
The recent ceremony that featured the Republican Bush administration naming the Justice Department headquarters after the Democrat Robert Kennedy was a startling political event.
What complicates the winter-that-never-was, making it more than simply nice or not, is that it was both a startling weather event in its own right and a cause of future disruption at the same time.
But the author gives them an opportunity to change by tossing at them a startling, inexplicable event: they come home from the opera one evening to find that everything in their apartment, from the sofa to the bed to the casserole in the oven, has mysteriously vanished.
Each given type of startling event (e.g. Drop with a fixed height or Air puff with a fixed duration) was delivered in a single session for seven times with pauses ranging from 1-to-3 minutes at randomized intervals (inter-trial-intervals).
But the most startling event had come three days earlier, on a Saturday afternoon when the court was nearly deserted and the justices, ominously dividing 5 to 4, suddenly stopped the Florida recount and agreed to hear the final Bush appeal.
It was probably the most startling event of the suffragette campaign, which had already seen many activists, including Davison herself, imprisoned and force-fed.
