Michelle V. Faerman

Oct 8, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Sean Meehan |W. Richard Staines |Michelle V. Faerman

1 INTRODUCTION At a given moment, the central nervous system (CNS) processes an abundance of incoming (afferent) sensory information from the environment. To prevent higher cortical areas of the brain from information overload, a sensory gating mechanism regulates the access of task-relevant and irrelevant information to higher levels of the CNS to optimize goal-based action performance (Cromwell et al., 2008).