WordNet
n. control of muscles
Wikipedia
Motor control is the process by which humans and animals use their brain/ cognition to activate and coordinate the muscles and limbs involved in the performance of a motor skill. Fundamentally, it is the integration of sensory information, both about the world and the current state of the body, to determine the appropriate set of muscle forces and joint activations to generate some desired movement or action. This process requires cooperative interaction between the central nervous system and the musculoskeletal system, and is thus a problem of information processing, coordination, mechanics, physics, and cognition. Successful motor control is crucial to interacting with the world, not only determining action capabilities, but regulating balance and stability as well.
The organization and production of movement is a complex problem, so the study of motor control has been approached from a wide range of disciplines, including psychology, cognitive science, biomechanics and neuroscience. While the modern study of motor control is an increasingly interdisciplinary field, research questions have historically been defined as either physiological or psychological, depending on whether the focus is on physical and biological properties, or organizational and structural rules. Areas of study related to motor control are motor coordination, motor learning, signal processing, and perceptual control theory.
Usage examples of "motor control".
But of course they have eye motor control which is presumably under the control of the frontal eye fields in cortex of the frontal lobes.
It was written in the large straggling letters of a first-grader with motor control problems.
Still retaining motor control of the larger mec, Corfe switched his vision to the channel that Michelle was watching.
Now her fingerclaw hit the motor control, giving her maximum thrust and, in effect, relaunching her.
He wasn't sure he had enough motor control to climb out of the car normally.
Hypno-Motor Control from an expert source-point insures your safety.
Mordred went immediately on to the buttons that would open the inner door in response to the sequence 2-5-4-1-3-1-2-1, but his motor control was still almost nonexistent and he was rewarded by another harsh buzz and an infuriating female voice (infuriating because it reminded him of the brown bitch’.
She was paralyzed by fear, frozen in her chair, unable to summon even enough motor control to blink or draw a breath.
There was nothing wrong with her fine motor control as she unbuckled Kelly's belt.