NOUN
- a normal reflex of young infants; a sudden loud noise causes the child to stretch out the arms and flex the legs
How To Use startle reflex In A Sentence
- Border Collies have a high startle reflex, which can sometimes endanger their lives.
- The effects of unpleasant stimulation are presumed to enhance the startle reflex through evocation of learned or innate responses in the amygdala.
- This is called the startle reflex; it's an automatic response to fear or danger, and it's very hard to fake. ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
- Occasionally he flung his arms up in what is known as the startle reflex, as if the shock of being in open air was too much for him and he feared falling through space. A better woman
