Sensory gating in the hippocampus and the medial prefrontal cortex

Sensory gating is a mechanism by which irrelevant sensory information is filtered in the brain, enabling efficient information processing. The auditory conditioning-test paradigm, an index of sensory gating, measures the reduction in the auditory-evoked response (AER) produced by a test stimulus fol...

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Main Author: Dissanayake, Watuthanthrige Dilshani Nadira
Published: University of Nottingham 2008
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.495060