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However, the factors governing spatial distribution and variability of stimulation-evoked responses across patients remain incompletely understood, making it difficult to distinguish physiological variation from pathological responses. We aimed to develop interpretable models of CCEP responses that integrate normative and patient-specific features, and to assess how these relationships are influenced by distance, brain-state, and epileptogenicity.<\/jats:p>\n                <\/jats:sec>\n                <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>We analyzed single-pulse stimulation data from 34 patients with drug-resistant epilepsy undergoing stereo-EEG monitoring. Significant CCEP responses were defined using N1 peak amplitude. For each stimulation-response pair, we derived multimodal features capturing Euclidean distance, effective connectivity priors from F-TRACT, a published population atlas of CCEP response probabilities, normative structural connectivity and communication metrics, and patient-specific functional connectivity estimated from iEEG during baseline and pre-stimulation periods. Lasso-regularized logistic regression models were trained to predict response using leave-one-patient-out cross-validation, and feature importance was examined across spatial scales and seizure onset zone (SOZ) involvement.<\/jats:p>\n                <\/jats:sec>\n                <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Performance to predict stimulation-evoked responses improved with the integration of multiple feature domains, with the full model achieving the highest accuracy (median AUC = 0.84). Feature relevance varied with spatial scale: short-range responses were dominated by distance and normative priors, whereas long-range responses depended strongly on patient-specific functional connectivity, especially when measured from pre-stimulation periods. Prediction errors were significantly higher for stimulation-response pairs within the SOZ, indicating deviations from normative connectivity-response relationships in epileptogenic networks.<\/jats:p>\n                <\/jats:sec>\n                <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Significance<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>CCEP responses reflect an interaction between spatial constraints, network architecture, and patient-specific brain state. 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