enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Voluntary action - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voluntary_action

    For example, Psychologist Charles Nuckolls holds that we control our voluntary behavior, and that it is not known how we come to plan what actions will be executed. [1] Many psychologists, notably Tolman, apply the concept of voluntary action to both animal and human behavior, raising the issue of animal consciousness and its role in voluntary ...

  3. Motor control - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_control

    Motor control includes conscious voluntary movements, subconscious muscle memory and involuntary reflexes, [1] as well as instinctual taxes. To control movement, the nervous system must integrate multimodal sensory information (both from the external world as well as proprioception) and elicit the necessary signals to recruit muscles to carry ...

  4. Somatic nervous system - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somatic_nervous_system

    The somatic nervous system (SNS), also known as voluntary nervous system, is a part of the peripheral nervous system (PNS) that links brain and spinal cord to skeletal muscles under conscious control, as well as to sensory receptors in the skin. [1] [2] The other part complementary to the somatic nervous system is the autonomic nervous system ...

  5. Neural control of limb stiffness - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_control_of_limb...

    For example, stiffness corrections that happen very quickly (80-100 milliseconds) are involuntary while slower stiffness corrections and adjustments are under voluntary control. Many of the voluntary stiffness adjustments are controlled by the motor cortex while involuntary adjustments can be controlled by reflex loops in the spinal cord or ...

  6. Peripheral nervous system - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peripheral_nervous_system

    The autonomic nervous system (ANS) controls involuntary responses to regulate physiological functions. [8] The brain and spinal cord of the central nervous system are connected with organs that have smooth muscle, such as the heart, bladder, and other cardiac, exocrine, and endocrine related organs, by ganglionic neurons. [8]

  7. Exhalation - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exhalation

    Brain control of exhalation can be broken down into voluntary control and involuntary control. During voluntary exhalation, air is held in the lungs and released at a fixed rate. Examples of voluntary expiration include: singing, speaking, exercising, playing an instrument, and voluntary hyperpnea. Involuntary breathing includes metabolic and ...

  8. Upper motor neuron - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_motor_neuron

    The major function of this pathway is fine voluntary motor control of the limbs. The pathway also controls voluntary body posture adjustments. corticobulbar tract: from the motor cortex to several nuclei in the pons and medulla oblongata: Involved in control of facial and jaw musculature, swallowing and tongue movements.

  9. Extrapyramidal system - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extrapyramidal_system

    In anatomy, the extrapyramidal system is a part of the motor system network causing involuntary actions. [1] The system is called extrapyramidal to distinguish it from the tracts of the motor cortex that reach their targets by traveling through the pyramids of the medulla.