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Musculoskeletal and Neural Physiological Phenomena > Nervous System Physiological Phenomena > Sensory Gating

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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.

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  • Sensory Filtering

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