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

Preferred term

Sensory Gating  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Filtering, Sensory
  • Sensory Filtering

Note

  • do not confuse with ION CHANNEL GATING

Scope note

  • 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.

History note

  • 2009

In other languages

  • aistimussuodatus

    Finnish

  • aistimusten suodattaminen
  • aistimusten suodatus
  • aistiärsykkeiden suodatus
  • ärsyketulvan rajoittaminen
  • ärsykkeiden suodattaminen
  • ärsykkeiden suodatus
  • Sensorisk filtrering

    Swedish

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D055139

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