1. 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.