motor task

collocation in English

meaningsofmotorandtask

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motor
noun[C]
uk
/ˈməʊ.tər/
us
/ˈmoʊ.t̬ɚ/
a device that changes electricity or fuel into movement and makes a ...
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task
noun
uk
/tɑːsk/
us
/tæsk/
a piece of work to be done, especially one done regularly, unwillingly, or ...
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(Definition ofmotorandtaskfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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No relationship was observed between subsyndrome scores and functional activation during themotortask.
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These commentators mention studies illustrating our ability to compensate for an external force field during amotortask.
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A sequential complexmotortaskinvolving the right hand was performed by nine medicated schizophrenic patients and 10 age-matched healthy controls.
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In the second experiment, the main task was a much more dorsalmotortask, pursuit-tracking, with the same secondary tasks, including the control condition.
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The authors suggest that the length of the dorsal system memory might relate in some way to the amount of time necessary to carry out themotortaskin question.
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Hence, on any given sensory ormotortask, a good proportion of dyslexics seems to have intact performance.
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Wenz et al. (1994) first reported reduced global cerebral activation during a self-paced sequential thumb-to-digitsmotortaskin schizophrenia.
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While wearing the goggles, the individual engages in a perceptualmotortasksuch as pointing to a visual target directly in front of them.
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This shows that developing an auditory image is partially amotortask.
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It has been suggested that the synaptogenesis and motor map reorganization merely represent the consolidation, and not the acquisition itself, of a specificmotortask.
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For example, implicit timing often occurs to achieve amotortask, involving the cerebellum, left parietal cortex, and left premotor cortex.
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In tier one, amotortaskvector is created by the central nervous system.
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Unlike themotortask, enhancement was not suppressed during the nocturnal sleep if the individual had napped earlier.
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For a person to perform even the simplestmotortask, the activity of thousands of these motor units must be coordinated.
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Amnesic participants show no impairment in thismotortaskwhen tested at later trials.
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Directionality of a movement has an effect on how themotortaskis performed (i.e. walking forward vs. walking backward, each uses different levels of contraction in different muscles).
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