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Motor control   /mˈoʊtər kəntrˈoʊl/   Listen
Motor control

noun
1.
Control of muscles.






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"Motor control" Quotes from Famous Books



... have noticed in his system certain disorders of sensibility, vision and motor control, ...
— A Mummer's Tale • Anatole France

... Interest in common objective things; (2) ability to form permanent associative connections between successive motor cooerdinations (memory for a series of acts); and (3) skill in the acquisition of voluntary motor control. The last factor is probably much less important than the other two. Motor awkwardness often prolongs the time from the usual ten or fifteen seconds to thirty or forty seconds, but it is rarely a cause of a failure. The important thing is to be ...
— The Measurement of Intelligence • Lewis Madison Terman

... off a length of his life line and attached one end to the spring-loaded trigger release on the motor control, leaving enough to trail the length of the cylinder and double back inside when he wanted it. He blessed the economically minded powers that insisted on manual firing control on these one-shot units instead of the complex radio triggers ...
— Far from Home • J.A. Taylor

... knowledge. The average time was 2.3 seconds. If two of the other time-reactions were left out, which were probably slow from lack of knowledge, the average time would be 1.6 seconds for 15 opposites. This shows evidence of some good mental control on the language side. Motor control was fair. He was able to tap 75 of our squares with 2 errors in 30 seconds, just a medium performance. A letter written on this date contains quite a few mis-spelled short words: "My father Send me to This Court for The troubels I had with ...
— Pathology of Lying, Etc. • William and Mary Healy

... a length of his life line and attached one end to the spring-loaded trigger release on the motor control, leaving enough to trail the length of the cylinder and double back inside when he wanted it. He blessed the economically minded powers that insisted on manual firing control on these one-shot units instead of the complex radio triggers ...
— Far from Home • J.A. Taylor



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