voluntary control
collocation in Englishmeaningsofvoluntaryandcontrol
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voluntary
adjective
uk/ˈvɒl.ən.tər.i/us/ˈvɑː.lən.ter.i/
done, made, or given willingly, without being forced or paid to ...
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control
noun
uk/kənˈtrəʊl/us/kənˈtroʊl/
the act of controlling something or someone, or the power to ...
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(Definition ofvoluntaryandcontrolfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Thus, the fixational subsystem can exhibit improvedvoluntarycontroldespite chronic visual deprivation.
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He suggests that manual gestures were integrated into spoken language after vocalizations were brought undervoluntarycontrol.
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However, recent evidence implicatesvoluntarycontrolof vocalizations in apes, which suggests that intentional control of vocal communication predates the hominid-pongid split.
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Typically, subjects would use this mode as their primary exercise mode when their motor deficits have been minimized and significantvoluntarycontrolhas returned.
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Most primates have much bettervoluntarycontrolover their hands and arms than over their mouths and tongues.
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At this level the question is which sub-action to carry out and this is subject tovoluntarycontrol.
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Voluntarycontrolof microsaccades during maintained monocular fixation.
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We can, however, steer our doxastic constitutions by implementing doxastic practices, which are under ourvoluntarycontrol.
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The cognitive- behavioral therapy worked on cortical networks including areas involved in attention that would be more easily subject tovoluntarycontrol.
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This is associated with increased activity andvoluntarycontrol.
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Evidence is reviewed under the headings of distinctiveness, consistency, and the degree ofvoluntarycontrol.
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Part of my argument for gestural theory was based on the premise that apes have little or novoluntarycontrolover vocalization.
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These brain changes should allow children to disengage more easily from fixation on negative events while asserting morevoluntarycontrolover their behavioral choices.
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Voluntarycontrolover amplitude is incomplete, and observers can better detect pain that the individual attempts to suppress rather than amplify or simulate.
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However, a second prefrontal mechanism of emotion regulation, centered in dorsomedial systems forvoluntarycontrol, was also expected to change with successful treatment.
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Given the complexity of the planning processes, reactive expectancies may often overcome the efforts forvoluntarycontrol.
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The emergence ofvoluntarycontrolof attention occurring during the infant's first year coincides with the development of three related, but anatomically distinct, attentional systems.
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This new argument depends principally on two intuitive ideas: that 'ought' implies ' can' and that belief is not subject to directvoluntarycontrol.
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Thus, despite extremely abnormal visual experience, the fixational subsystem can function to improve ocular stability undervoluntarycontrol.
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