Examples of kinesthesia in the following topics:
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- Kinesthesia is a key component in muscle memory and hand-eye coordination.
- The discovery of kinesthesia served as a precursor to the study of proprioception.
- While the terms proprioception and kinesthesia are often used interchangeably, they actually have many different components.
- Another difference in proprioception and kinesthesia is that kinesthesia focuses on the body's motion or movements, while proprioception focuses more on the body's awareness of its movements and behaviors.
- This has led to the notion that kinesthesia is more behavioral, and proprioception is more cognitive.
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- Two other senses, kinesthesia and the vestibular senses, have become widely recognized by scientists.
- Kinesthesia is the perception of the positioning of the parts of the body, commonly known as "body awareness."
- Both kinesthesia and the vestibular senses help us to balance.
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- Vestibular sensation, which is an organism's sense of spatial orientation and balance, proprioception (position of bones, joints, and muscles), and the sense of limb position that is used to track kinesthesia (limb movement) are part of somatosensation.
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- Kinesthetic learners (related to kinesthesia) do best when they act out or repeat something several times.
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- Receptor cells in the muscles and joints called proprioceptors also aid in the somatosensory system, but they are sometimes separated into another sensory category called kinesthesia.
- All of these receptors contribute to overall kinesthesia, or the perception of bodily movements.
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- Thus, they also contribute to proprioception and kinesthesia.