reflex movement

Researchers have also developed terms to describe the scratch reflex movements themselves.

A moment later it collapsed, and he realised that this was a purely reflex movement.

Such reflex movements are not uncommon in people who are cortically dead.

As James states, there is no difference, from the point of view of the outside observer, between voluntary and reflex movements.

Ethnic differences in reflex movements of newborn infants have been reported, suggesting that some biological factor is at work.

There was no reflex movement.

Although the heart begins to beat on the 23rd day after conception, this article primarily deals with voluntary and reflex movements.

Uncontrolled reflex movements and muscle tightness (spasticity) occur with varying severity.

Some of the sensory information is conveyed directly to lower motor neurons before it reaches the brain, resulting in involuntary or reflex movements.

Cerebral palsy causes reflex movements that a person can't control and muscle tightness that may affect parts or all of the body.

It is believed to function in head and neck reflex movements in response to primarily visual and possibly vestibular stimuli.

For the present, we wish to place ourselves resolutely in the position of outside observers; we will therefore ignore the distinction between voluntary and reflex movements.

This characterization of behavior excludes phenomena such as patellar reflex movements, and includes acts such as mentally working on an anagram.

Also "Claude's hyperkinesis sign" is named after him, which is used to describe reflex movements of paretic muscles elicited by painful stimuli.

(Voluntary movements are defined as those vital movements which are distinguished from reflex movements as involving the higher nervous centres.

In Wally's case, starting with a body essentially capable of nothing more than reflex movement, the response therapists began by working to develop what was referred to as "initiating actions."

It wasn't the normal rapid reflex movement that you expect from a lizard, but a slow considered blink which made you feel that it was thinking about what it was doing.

This child suffered from Leigh's disease, a uniformly fatal, progressive illness which eventually destroys all nerve function and thereby prevents breathing, swallowing, coughing, or any intentional or reflex movement.

The other, instinctively realizing the danger, swiftly retreats in a reflex movement of social and theological withdrawal, but all that it does from then on is marked by a deepening social and intellectual insecurity.

"Watch Carlos-" Martinez had already exploded into instinctive reaction, a reflex movement triggered by a deep and perhaps genetic revulsion of an alien creature internally flailing and raping an earthwoman.

Similarly, under the Swedish Penal Code, acts during sleep and unconsciousness, reflex movements, spasms and convulsions, as well as acts performed under physical force or hypnosis are generally not punishable.

According to an overview produced by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, purposive movement begins at about 18 weeks, gradually replacing reflex movements, and purposeful voluntary movements then develop further after birth.

The Lady Histyiagh bucked her hips, the presence of a delicious, tingling warmth at the top of her legs triggering a reflex movement of muscle and forcing a breathless gulp from her.

Nevertheless, it is necessary for our purpose to find some way of distinguishing between voluntary and reflex movements, since the results would be too paradoxical, if we were to say that reflex movements also involve beliefs.)

A reflex movement of the head and neck away from a touch around the mouth and nose can be detected in an 8-week human embryo, but such important reflexes as grasping and sucking do not appear until the embryo is at least double that age.