sensorimotor

American  

[sen-suh-ree-moh-ter] / ˌsɛn sə riˈmoʊ tər /

Also sensomotor

adjective

1. Psychology. of or relating to motor activity caused by sensory stimuli.

2. Physiology. both sensory and motor, as parts of the cerebral cortex.

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sensorimotor British  

/ ˌsɛnsərɪˈməʊtə, ˌsɛnsəˈməʊtə /

adjective

1. of or relating to both the sensory and motor functions of an organism or to the nerves controlling them

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Etymology

Origin of sensorimotor

First recorded in 1850–55; sensory + motor

Example Sentences

The researchers found that the high-likelihood infants showed stronger connections between the Salience Network and sensorimotor regions of the brain, areas involved in processing sensory information and movement.

From Science Daily • May 22, 2024

“We still don’t know their entire sensorimotor system,” he said.

From Salon • Dec. 1, 2023

San Francisco State University biologist Robyn Crook, who was not involved in the new study, says it is interesting and relevant to her work on sensorimotor integration in octopuses, squid and cuttlefish.

From Scientific American • Mar. 7, 2023

In the new study, Chang’s team temporarily removed a portion of the participant’s skull and laid a thin sheet of electrodes smaller than a credit card directly over his sensorimotor cortex.

From Science Magazine • Jul. 14, 2021

So far as permanence goes, connections between sensorimotor neurone groups seem to hold modifications longer than do connections between either associative-motor or associative-association.

From How to Teach by Strayer, George Drayton