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

The motor response, through contraction of the muscles of the pharynx, is mediated through the vagus nerve.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

We are now, as we were then, essentially motor beings, and the only way in which we can meet the dangers in our environment is by a motor response.

From Origin and Nature of Emotions by Crile, George W. (Washington)