motor response

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Furthermore, electroencephalographs revealed the neural waveforms that showed stronger processing of inhibition, which restrains a motor response, in higher skilled players.

From Science Daily • Apr. 18, 2024

"Dopamine controls motor response, but it can also regulate effort. Our data show a mechanism that could link these two aspects by shifting the speed-accuracy trade-off in favour of speed."

From Science Daily • Sep. 19, 2023

Essentially, you can sabotage the central nervous system’s attempts to save you from your situation by short-circuiting the mechanisms that produce the motor response of vomiting.

From Scientific American • May 26, 2023

Voluntary motor response means the contraction of skeletal muscle, but those contractions are not always voluntary in the sense that you have to want to perform them.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

The motor response to a given stimulus is determined partly by that stimulus, and partly by the organic state left behind by just preceding stimuli.

From Psychology A Study Of Mental Life by Woodworth, Robert S.