W. Richard Staines

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).

Oct 28, 2023 | mdpi.com | Katlyn E. Brown |Sean Meehan |W. Richard Staines |Lynea B. Kaethler

2. Materials and Methods 2.1. ParticipantsThirty-four participants (fifteen male, nineteen female) were recruited from the University of Waterloo community. Eligible participants were between the ages of 18 and 40, free of neurological pathologies, not taking psychotropic medications, had no history of severe head injury, and had 20/20 or corrected to 20/20 vision.