Member-only story
Beyond the Basics 5
When I say senses, what comes to mind first? Sight? Sound? Smell, taste, and touch? You’d be right.
What about the others?
Did you know there are actually more than twenty senses? There are, and they’re broken down into two categories: exteroception and interoception.
Exteroceptive senses include the basic five senses: sight, sound, scent, taste, and touch, as defined by Aristotle. As the name implies, it refers to external senses.
But have you ever heard of interoceptive senses? Those refer to internal senses.
Here are a few to ponder:
Proprioception — While exteroceptors are responsible for information from outside the body such as the eyes, ears, mouth, and skin, and interoceptors give information about the internal organs, proprioception is awareness of movement derived from muscular, tendon, and articular sources. It is the sense of the relative position of neighboring parts of the body. It also indicates whether the body is moving with required effort.
An easy way to remember this one is to think of proprioception as to propel or move.
Proprioreceptors are sometimes known as adequate stimuli receptors.
