Sensory Gating
Synonyms
Acoustic Startle Gating
Auditory Sensory Gating
Filtering, Sensory
Gating, Acoustic Startle
Gating, Auditory Sensory
Gating, Sensorimotor
Gating, Sensory
Gating, Startle
Sensorimotor Gating
Sensory Filtering
Startle Gating
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.