Ideo Motor Response
The word "ideomotor" is derived from the terms "ideo" (idea, or mental representation) and "motor" (muscular action). The terms "ideomotor effect" and "ideomotor response" were both introduced by William Benjamin Carpenter.
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Famous quotes containing the words motor and/or response:
“We disparage reason.
But all the time it’s what we’re most concerned with.
There’s will as motor and there’s will as brakes.
Reason is, I suppose, the steering gear.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“Because humans are not alone in exhibiting such behavior—bees stockpile royal jelly, birds feather their nests, mice shred paper—it’s possible that a pregnant woman who scrubs her house from floor to ceiling [just before her baby is born] is responding to a biological imperative . . . . Of course there are those who believe that . . . the burst of energy that propels a pregnant woman to clean her house is a perfectly natural response to their mother’s impending visit.”
—Mary Arrigo (20th century)