sensorimotor

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   relating jointly to sensory input and motor activity or their coordination

   Silent speech may depend on sensorimotor processes in the larynx.

2. 2
   adj

   in developmental psychology, relating to the infant stage dominated by perception and action

   During the sensorimotor stage, infants learn through direct action on objects.

A nineteenth-century blend of sensory + motor. The historical spelling sensori-motor makes the two components more visibly separate.

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