kinesthesis

Even with the eyes closed, one is aware of the positions of his legs and arms and can perceive the movement of a limb and its direction. The term kinesthesis (“feeling of motion”) has been coined for this sensibility.

Kinesthesia, or the awareness of the body through sensations in the joints, muscles, and tendons, rather than through visual perception, not only defines the dancer’s experience of his or her own body in movement but also the way in which dance exerts its power over…

One example is kinesthesia, or the subjective sensory awareness of the position of limbs in space. It might be supposed (as it long was) that sensory receptors in joints, not the muscles, provide kinesthetic signals, since people are very aware of joint angle and not at all of…

…respect to each other (kinesthetic sensations) is attributable neither to muscle spindles nor to tendon organs. The sensations are based on stimulation of sensory nerve endings of various types at the joint capsules and of stretch receptors in the skin. There are also mechanoreceptors in the walls of some…

Kinesthesis here refers to experiences that arise during movement from sense organs in the membranes lining the joints and from the sense of effort in voluntary movement; receptors in muscles seem to have little role in the perception of bodily movements. Depending on speed of…

(sense of hearing), kinesthetic (sense of bodily movement), olfactory (sense of smell), and gustatory (sense of taste) experience. Spatial cues, such as vestibular stimuli (sense of balance) and other modes for sensing body orientation, also contribute to perception. No single cue is perceived independently of another; in fact,…