startle reflex

Startle reflexes have been shown to be modulated by emotion.

At about this time Seibei demonstrates his startling reflexes and martial skills in a scene that is staged with hilarious deftness.

Women who smoke marijuana during pregnancy have smaller babies than nonsmokers, and their babies are at greater risk of having neurological difficulties like abnormal startle reflexes, tremors and behavioral problems.

Phelps and her colleagues added neurological evidence to this insight by scanning the brains and testing the startle reflexes of white undergraduates at Yale before they took the I.A.T.

Geraint Jenkins, an Aberystwyth historian who wrote a brief biographical sketch of the goalkeeper in 2000, adds that Roose boasted "sharp eyesight, startling reflexes, competitive instinct and reckless bravery", and was altogether "an extraordinarily daunting opponent".