Proprioception, role of joint receptors

Vaughan G. Macefield; Marc D. Binder; Nobutaka Hirokawa; Uwe Windhorst

Proprioception, role of joint receptors

Vaughan G. Macefield, Marc D. Binder, Nobutaka Hirokawa, Uwe Windhorst

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Abstract

Proprioception, literally the "sense of self" (from Latin "proprius" = "own"), is the group of sensory modalities that allow us to know the positions of our limbs in space and to detect and assess the magnitudes of movements and forces without vision.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Encyclopedia of Neuroscience
Place of Publication	Germany
Publisher	Springer
Pages	3315-3316
Number of pages	2
ISBN (Print)	9783540296782
Publication status	Published - 2009

Keywords

proprioception
muscular sense
orientation (physiology)
proprioceptors

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Proprioception, role of joint receptors

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