![]() ![]() Consequently Sir Charles Bell (1833) and others more recently (Fitt, 1988, p. The sense of bodily movement and position of ones own body does not fit easily into Aristotles classic senses seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, and touching. The internal / external distinction in concepts of proprioception / exteroception are not valid criteria for classifying sensory systems and so a concept of kinesthesia as arising in both internal & external data from receptors throughout the body offers an integrated model.Ī variety of terms, including kinesthesia, proprioception, somaesthesia, the haptic system, position sense, muscle sense, joint sense, and movement sense, have all been used in similar ways to describe aspects of the perception of bodily movements and positions. Variety of terms and conceptsĪ variety of terms and concepts have been used to describe aspects of the perception of body movements and positions, for example
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