Sensory Gating

"Sensory Gating" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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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.

Descriptor ID	D055139
MeSH Number(s)	G11.561.794
Concept/Terms	Sensory Gating Sensory Gating Gating, Sensory Sensory Filtering Filtering, Sensory Sensorimotor Gating Sensorimotor Gating Gating, Sensorimotor Auditory Sensory Gating Auditory Sensory Gating Gating, Auditory Sensory Acoustic Startle Gating Acoustic Startle Gating Gating, Acoustic Startle Startle Gating Gating, Startle

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Sensory Gating".

Biological Sciences [G]
Musculoskeletal and Neural Physiological Phenomena [G11]
Nervous System Physiological Phenomena [G11.561]
Sensory Gating [G11.561.794]

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Sensory Gating".

Sensory Gating
Prepulse Inhibition

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