percepto-
combining form from L. percept-um (see percept), as perˌcepto-ˈmotor a., applied to action apparently automatic, but really due to mental perception and experience: e.g. the blinking of the eye when any object comes close to it.
| 1878 tr. H. von Ziemssen's Cycl. Med. XIV. 697 These ‘percepto-motor’ reflex acts still exhibit a high degree of automatism. |