ideomotoradj.

1854 W. B. Carpenter Princ. Compar. Physiol. (ed. 4) xiii. 700 It is in those peculiar states of the Human Mind..that we have the most remarkable exemplification of this kind of action, which may be designated as ideo-motor.

1881 Brain 4 350 This last is an example of ideo-motor movement; instances of which are afforded by the act of vomiting, which may be caused by the recollection of disgusting sights or odours.

1909 Lancet 13 Feb. 444/2 As an instance of the tendency to dissociation the outgoing impulses which start in the ideomotor centres of the brain and result in movement of the voluntary muscles may be mentioned.

1939 Philos. Rev. 48 320 It is the orchestrated response of the varied and often conflicting ideomotor sets of a living person to some identified external or internal stimulus.

1972 Jrnl. Sci. Study Relig. 11 153 It may be postulated that..the degree to which a ‘salvation sermon’ will evoke appropriate perceptual, affective and ideomotor responses, will vary directly with the degree to which he is suggestible.

2000 Record (Kitchener-Waterloo, Ont.) (Nexis) 15 June a10 The ideomotor effect causes a dowser's stick to dip; it has nothing to do with magnetic fields.

1908 Jrnl. Nerv. & Mental Dis. 35 636 There is a great variety of abnormal manipulations..of objects, which are described under the head of apraxia. These may be divided into (1) manifestations of ideomotor apraxia (ideokinetic, of Liepmann, formerly motor apraxia), [etc.].

1977 Neuropsychologia 15 196 Minimal left-sided dyspraxia of the ideomotor type, moderate right-hand dyscopia..were evident in all complete commissurotomy patients.

2005 J. A. Ogden Fractured Minds (ed. 2) vi. 101 One explanation postulated..to explain ideomotor apraxia is that it is a result of a disconnection between the cortical area, which understands the spoken command, and the motor area, which produces the activity.