{"id":9142,"date":"2019-05-22T16:15:23","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/spontaneous_motor_activity\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:15:23","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:15:23","slug":"spontaneous_motor_activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/spontaneous_motor_activity\/","title":{"rendered":"Spontaneous motor activity"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Movements expressed by the embryo or fetus that are not a response to explicit stimulation by an experimenter. &nbsp;At least some spontaneous movements are generated by activity in the central nervous system, although in intact embryos\/fetuses movements may be influenced by uncontrolled sources of environmental stimuli or self-stimulation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"central_pattern_generator_-cpg-\">Central pattern generator (CPG)<\/a>, <a href=\"motility\">Motility<\/a>, <a href=\"movement\">Movement<\/a>, <a href=\"preyer-tracy_hypothesis_of_autogeneous_motility\">Preyer-Tracy hypothesis of autogeneous motility<\/a>, <a href=\"self-stimulation\">Self-stimulation<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Movements expressed by the embryo or fetus that are not a response to explicit stimulation by an experimenter. &nbsp;At least some spontaneous movements are generated by activity in the central nervous system, although in intact embryos\/fetuses movements may be influenced by uncontrolled sources of environmental stimuli or self-stimulation.&nbsp; See Central pattern generator (CPG), Motility, Movement, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/spontaneous_motor_activity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Spontaneous motor activity&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-9142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}