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Sensory Gating
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Definition
: The ability of the BRAIN to suppress neuronal responses to external sensory inputs, such as auditory and visual stimuli. Sensory filtering (or gating) allows humans to block out irrelevant, meaningless, or redundant stimuli.
do not confuse with ION CHANNEL GATING
Other names
Startle Gatings, Acoustic; Startle Gatings; Startle Gating, Acoustic; Gatings, Startle; Gatings, Acoustic Startle; Gating, Startle; Gating, Sensory; Gating, Sensorimotor; Gating, Acoustic Startle; Filtering, Sensory; Acoustic Startle Gatings; Startle Gating; Sensory Filtering; Sensorimotor Gating; Acoustic Startle Gating
