What internal state can significantly reduce an individual's available sensory processing budget?

Answer

Being tired, hungry, or experiencing high emotional stress unrelated to sensory input.

Being tired, hungry, dehydrated, or already experiencing high emotional stress can decrease the brain’s overall ability to regulate incoming information effectively, thus lowering the sensory threshold sharply.

What internal state can significantly reduce an individual's available sensory processing budget?
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