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

Figure 12.16 The Motor Response On the basis of the sensory input and the integration in the CNS, a motor response is formulated and executed.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

Granting that this immediate connection between sensory impulse and motor response is an inherited capacity, the tendency of the young child to imitate the acts of others may be classified as an instinct.

From Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education by Ontario. Ministry of Education