Have you ever stumbled on uneven ground (or even ground) but somehow caught yourself before you fell? That’s proprioception, your body’s built-in GPS. It’s your body’s ability to sense where it is in ...
We all know about our five senses and the importance they play in our daily lives: smell, taste, sight, sound and touch. Some scientists say that we have many more that just five senses, and they ...
Proprioception, otherwise known as kinesthesia, is your body’s ability to sense movement, action, and location. It’s present in every muscle movement you have. Without proprioception, you wouldn’t be ...
Fabrice Sarlegna has received funding from the CNRS and Aix-Marseille University. Chris Miall receives funding from the NIH and the Leverhulme Foundation. He has also been funded by the Royal Society ...
Most of us grew up learning that humans have five senses: sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. It’s a neat list and easy to memorize, but it's incomplete. Modern neuroscience shows that the human ...