Sentence examples for grasp a cup from inspiring English sources

We see the man trying to grasp a cup of water with his "bloody stump" and talking, "in a rambling manner and to no sensible purpose".

"When I grasp a cup, I am inducing sensory stimulation in the hand; in my eyes, from seeing how the scene changes; and proprioceptively [in my muscles], since I can feel its weight".

In a development that could help restore fine motor movement to patients with brain or spinal-cord injuries, researchers have briefly restored a 24-year-old quadriplegic man's ability to grasp a cup and perform other everyday tasks with his hand, wrist and fingers.

It is almost impossible to watch these boats without wondering what it is like to batten oneself down, sails neatly furled, all the recondite language of the sailing world at one's grasp, a cup of coffee in hand, aware that the vastness of Manhattan is hulking nearby, like the greatest of oceangoing liners.

The effectiveness of the proposed method has been tested in five different tasks: grasping a cup, unscrewing a bottle, grasping a plate, grasping a ketchup bottle, and grasping a measuring cup.

We show how this information can have a higher-level (compared to pixels) and useful interpretation, for example, if the robot has grasped a cup in its field of view or not.

That means that when we observe a person grasping a cup of coffee the very same neural population that controls the execution of the grasping movement becomes active in the observer's motor areas.

In a study reported 12 July in Current Biology, a team from the Netherlands, Italy, and France showed videos of hands performing simple actions, like grasping a cup, to 16 "normal" people and two aplasic people born without hands or arms.

An example will clarify this point: John observes Mary who is grasping a cup of coffee.

Now, when witnessing the motor act performed by Mary (e.g. grasping a cup), John recognizes what she is doing, that is the goal of that motor act.

When we observe an individual performing a motor act (e.g. grasping a cup) we get two types of information on the basis of how the motor act is done and the context: what the agent is doing (i.e. grasping) and the intention underlying it (i.e. grasping for drinking).