Talk:Sensory gating

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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 27 May 2020 and 6 July 2020. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Hongjoo (Angela). Peer reviewers: Ws1351.

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In collaboration with cbear11, here are some proposed changes/expansion to the page.

Introduction

Give a specific definition, identify the fields of study it pertains to, current research, and limitations of knowledge and study.

"Sensory gating refers to the brain's filtering of irrelevant sensory stimuli thereby promoting optimal information processing" (Braff and Geyer, 1990, in Wan et al, 2008).

Possible subheadings:

Anatomical overview

An anatomical overview of sensory input to the thalamus and hippocampus. Also, include what sense (i.e. olfaction) does not go through the thalamus.

Synaptic overview

A synaptic overview of what occurs within the thalamus and hippocampus.

Process

Elaborate how sensory gating processes and filters information.Wikimister (talk) 18:30, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

Current Research

Expand the topic of Schizophrenia, and identify other areas of research relating to sensory gating, research on smokers and P50 sensory gating.

What about ADD and autism? We should be talking about that stuff.Wikimister (talk) 18:30, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

Prof Comments

Good start. To revise, please fix the reference formats. You have double internal references, and then stop doing references in the preferred wikipedia style. Please hyperlink to autism and schizophrenia the first time you use them. Add attention and cognitive psychology or cognitive neuroscience to the see also section. Syntax problems: In the neural processing section, omit the first word "most" from the first sentence. Sensory gating isn't a type of ERP, as the sentence makes it seem. Likewise, PPI can be used with all types of brains, not just with people with ASD. In the techniques section, since ERP is measured with EEG (as is PPI), I think the electrophysiological section should go first. In the autism section, you don't have enough support to claim that the repetitive behaviors are a result of difficulties in inhibitory gating mechanisms. You need to explain that link in much more detail. ProfRox (talk) 14:12, 27 November 2011 (UTC)

comments

Hey classmates,

Looking good! Here are my comments(take em or leave em):In the Neural regions...section, the sentence that begins "Furthermore..." didn't make sense to me. In the next paragraph, the sentence about research wasn't very clear to me. The heading Prepluse Inhibition may be a typo. In Other Techniques the first sentence has a typo. In the Nicotine section I was confused by "nicotine can correct sensory gating deficits for individuals with schizophrenia and their families..."??? Hope that helps.Smyelin (talk) 04:48, 28 November 2011 (UTC)

Hello! I was also confused by the "nicotine can correct sensory gating deficits for individuals with schizophrenia and their families" comment. Also, just as a suggestion, in the section that speaks of "adults" dealing with ASD, perhaps you could change that to "individuals," as its more than just adults that experience that problem. It may even be more prevalent in children, as kids on the spectrum have to train themselves to deal with all the background noise they hear. From personal experience, witnessing a young person dealing with a crowded, noisy lunchroom can be highly overwhelming for them! Otherwise, the article looks great! Thanks! Eml9412 (talk) 17:40, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

Great job fellow classmates. The page is well organized with good, detailed information. You may want to consider revising some of the vocabulary used, the language feels more like a research paper than a clear, concise wiki page. Also I was very confused by the "nicotine can correct sensory gating deficits..." not sure if this is appropriate. A job well done otherwise, looks like you guys worked very hard at researching and putting the information together. (Mcasc21 (talk) 21:25, 2 December 2011 (UTC)).

Article looks great overall, just a few things: There's a sentence under "Neural Regions" that begins with the world "Furthermore", that sentence didn't make sense to me; it almost seems like part of the sentence is missing. Or could you rephrase that in some way? Also, you mention several regions of the brain: auditory cortex, hippocampus, amygdala, etc. Maybe you could link to those pages? Also, I think you could probably link to nicotine, under the "Drug Influences Section.", maybe you could be a little more explicit with that section overall. "Nicotine can correct sensory gating deficits" seems kind of vague to me. Maybe you could describe that further Those were my main thoughts. Otherwise it looks good to me! I felt like everything was well explained, and it read really well. Once that Neural Regions section is tweaked, it'll sound even better. Great job. Will4544 (talk) 03:58, 3 December 2011 (UTC)will4544

This looks very good and it is an interesting topic. In the Intro, you give an example for auditory sensory gating and say that other senses use is as well. Can you give any examples of how sensory gating occurs with other senses?

Micjojans89 (talk) 21:42, 5 December 2011 (UTC)Micjojans89

Hey hey hey, I really loved the intial definition you guys provided. It was simple and sweet and went right to the point. If I was seeking a definition for sensory gating, the first line would be enough adequate information to provide context. In the "schizophrenia" and "structures involved" section, I was just confused about what exactly the P50 wave was...where exaztly is this region located and what does it specifically aid in. Other than that looks nice! Keykey123 (talk) 22:11, 5 December 2011 (UTC)

Hi guys, this looks really good so far. The nicotine link is not working, so you may want to fix that. I think that it would also be really helpful to add links to the different brain regions and see if there are any pages that explain the different tests used that you could link to as well. Biopsyclvr (talk) 20:42, 10 December 2011 (UTC)

Can't figure out how to add this

The section on paired-click testing should probably, somewhere in it, link to the page on paired-click testing, which is P50_(neuroscience). I can't figure out how to sensibly edit this section to make this link flow in the text. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.61.41.34 (talk) 16:50, 7 May 2016 (UTC)