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Definition of Ideomotor
1. a. Applied to those actions, or muscular movements, which are automatic expressions of dominant ideas, rather than the result of distinct volitional efforts, as the act of expressing the thoughts in speech, or in writing, while the mind is occupied in the composition of the sentence.
Definition of Ideomotor
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to involuntary actions caused by subconscious thought. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ideomotor
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Ideomotor
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Ideomotor
Literary usage of Ideomotor
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Primer of Psychology by Edward Bradford Titchener (1898)
"Secondary ideomotor action. Instance. freedom of the will unless (i) we ...
ideomotor Action and Automatic Movement.— The ideomotor action that we have now ..."
2. An Introductory Psychology: With Some Educational Applications by Melbourne Stuart Read (1911)
"ideomotor action. There is a type of conduct on the borderland between the voluntary
... The running, or at least the starting to run, is ideomotor action. ..."
3. Psychology: A Study of Mental Life by Robert Sessions Woodworth (1921)
"ideomotor ACTION Involuntary movement is not always " sensorimotor", which means
directly aroused by a sensory stimulus; ..."
4. Elements of Human Psychology by Howard Crosby Warren (1922)
"VOLITION Will and ideomotor Activity. — In man, responses to stimulation are ...
Such responses are called ideomotor actions, in contrast to sensorimotor ..."
5. The Physiology and Pathology of Mind by Henry Maudsley (1868)
"... and the stimulus which is not reflected in ideomotor action passes from cell
to cell in the hemispheres and excites reflection ; so in the reaction of ..."
6. Psychology of the Moral Self by Bernard Bosanquet (1904)
"Carpenter in his Mental Physiology, chap, vi., even includes in such ideomotor
action unrecognised cases of volition, such as take place in the use of the ..."
7. The Physiology of Mind: Being the First Part of a Third Edition, Revised by Henry Maudsley (1889)
"... mental life proves that sensori-motor action is dependent on reflex action,
while reflex action is independent of sensori-motor action; ideomotor action ..."
8. Nervous and Mental Disease Monograph Series (1908)
"In ideomotor apraxia the terminal act is not adequate to the end proposed for other
... In ideomotor apraxia there is a gap between the optic and abstract ..."
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