thought-controlledadj.

1926 Proc. National Educ. Assoc. 64 608 The teaching of a habit-building, interest-driven, thought-controlled conduct is one of the chief objectives of physical education.

1989 S. Hampshire Innoc. & Experience i. 39 The line of thought that we pursue while we are concentrating on some thought-controlled activity.

1998 J. Chadwick-Jones Developing Social Psychol. Monkeys & Apes ii. 9 Actions may be interpreted as being mainly thought-controlled or behaviour-controlled, that is, controlled by reflexes.

1934 C. Buchanan & A. Carr in Astounding Stories Aug. 89/1 Inside the dark quadrant thousands of Estan space ships and thought-controlled projectiles were waiting.

1977 C. Thomas Firefox 9 The system..seems designed to couple radar and infra-red, those two standard forms of detection and guidance in modern aircraft—with a thought-guided and -controlled arsenal aboard the plane.

1986 E. S. Rabkin in G. E. Slusser & E. S. Rabkin Hard Sci. Fiction 33 He first approaches Lys through the underground tunnel in a thought-controlled, needle-shaped car.

1993 Pop. Sci. June 51/1 Researchers are using several approaches to developing thought-controlled computers... Researchers are ‘training’ users to emit brain signals that tell a computer to move a cursor around the screen.

2005 Jrnl. Hand Surg. 30 781/2 There is a firm central nervous system basis for generation of electrical signals to drive complex thought-controlled movements in an artificial hand.

1947 L. F. Budenz This is My Story v. 127 It would enmesh me in a thought-controlled world almost as tight as the Japanese system.

1948 S. E. Morison Hist. U.S. Naval Operations World War II III. xxi. 396 Even the most thought-controlled and victory-drunk Japanese could see that his homeland was not unassailable by air.

1962 R. Goold-Adams John Foster Dulles v. 57 Unless members of the State Department showed the kind of thought-controlled ‘loyalty’ which the distortions of the McCarthy hearings demanded, they would risk being hounded out of their livelihood.

1971 R. T. Francoeur Utopian Motherhood p. ix It can also cast us into the asexual impersonal world of assembly-line-produced, thought-controlled, genetically engineered ghosts of men.

2005 J. W. Houghton Rough Magicke ii. iv. 167 ‘Share by force, you mean. It's thought control!’ ‘Oh, come on, RJ. Do I look thought-controlled?’