Sentences with phrase «volitional control of»

This allowed the monkey to electrically stimulate the spinal cord through volitionally controlled brain activity and thereby to restore volitional control of the paretic hand.

This study demonstrates that artificial neural connections can compensate for interrupted descending pathways and promote volitional control of upper limb movement after damage of neural pathways such as spinal cord injury or stroke.

What's new is that we have been able to use this artificial neuronal connection bypassing the lesion site to restore volitional control of the subject's own paretic arm.

Not exact matches

Volitional control can be established, through biofeedback learning, over processes long believed to be totally subject to the involuntary control of the autonomic nervous system.

Students experience autonomy in the classroom, Deci and Ryan explain, when their teachers «maximize a sense of choice and volitional engagement» while minimizing students» feelings of coercion and control.

Although babywearing supports and enhances postural and head control, babies need to be belly down to the earth in order for all of the natural postural reflexes to be optimally stimulated and integrated into smooth volitional movements and eventually for crawling.

This unique pattern may offer insights into cognitive dissociations that may be intrinsic to the creative process: the innovative, internally motivated production of novel material (at once rule based and highly structured) that can apparently occur outside of conscious awareness and beyond volitional control.

But we also discovered that part of our confidence is volitional: it's something we can control.