- sensorimotor
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adjective
Etymology: sensory + motor
Date: 1855
of, relating to, or functioning in both sensory and motor aspects of bodily activity <sensorimotor skills>
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
sensorimotor
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sensorimotor — 1855, from comb. form of SENSORY (Cf. sensory) + MOTOR (Cf. motor) … Etymology dictionary
sensorimotor — [sen΄sə rē mōt′ər] adj. [< SENSORY + MOTOR] 1. Physiol. of, pertaining to, or concerned with both the sensory and the motor impulses of an organism 2. Psychol. of or pertaining to motor responses initiated by sensory stimulation … English World dictionary
sensorimotor — Both sensory and motor; denoting a mixed nerve with afferent and efferent fibers. SYN: sensomotor. * * * sen·so·ri·mo·tor .sen(t)s (ə )rē mōt ər adj of, relating to, or functioning in both sensory and motor aspects of bodily activity… … Medical dictionary
Sensorimotor rhythm — DescriptionThe Sensory Motor Rhythm (SMR) is also called Mu rhythm fact|date=February 2008 (find a more detailed article there). It is an oscillatory idle rhythm of synchronized electromagnetic brain activity. It appears in spindles in recordings … Wikipedia
sensorimotor area — noun an area of the cortex including the precentral gyrus and the postcentral gyrus and combining sensory and motor functions • Syn: ↑sensorimotor region • Hypernyms: ↑cortical area, ↑cortical region … Useful english dictionary
sensorimotor region — noun an area of the cortex including the precentral gyrus and the postcentral gyrus and combining sensory and motor functions • Syn: ↑sensorimotor area • Hypernyms: ↑cortical area, ↑cortical region … Useful english dictionary
sensorimotor — /sen seuh ree moh teuhr/, adj. 1. Psychol. of or pertaining to motor activity caused by sensory stimuli. Cf. ideomotor. 2. Physiol. both sensory and motor, as parts of the cerebral cortex. Also, sensomotor /sen seuh moh teuhr/. [1850 55; SENSORY… … Universalium
sensorimotor — adjective Of or pertaining to both sensory and motor activity … Wiktionary
sensorimotor — adj. pertaining to motor responses caused by sensory stimuli (Psychology) … English contemporary dictionary
sensorimotor — [ˌsɛns(ə)rɪ məʊtə] adjective Physiology (of nerves or their actions) having or involving both sensory and motor functions or pathways … English new terms dictionary
