Definition
ideomotor
adjective
- relating to or denoting an involuntary muscular movement produced by a mental image or idea without conscious intention
Usage: psychology, neuroscience
Examples
- The ideomotor effect explains why a person's hand moves when holding a Ouija board pointer.
- Researchers studied ideomotor responses to understand how thoughts can trigger unconscious physical actions.
- The magician relied on ideomotor movements to create the illusion of supernatural contact.
- Ideomotor phenomena occur when mental focus on an action causes the body to perform it without awareness.
- The pendulum swung due to ideomotor effects rather than any external force.