Proprioception - The Sixth Sense
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Proprioception allows us to recognize where our bodies are physically exist in space.
It doesn't usually make the list of the five most important human senses, but proprioception is fundamental. It's our sense of where our bodies exist in space. We can feel where our hand is or where our feet are without looking at them. And we can move them accordingly because of that innate sense.
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Proprioception - The Sixth Sense
Clip: Episode 5 | 2m 46sVideo has Closed Captions
It doesn't usually make the list of the five most important human senses, but proprioception is fundamental. It's our sense of where our bodies exist in space. We can feel where our hand is or where our feet are without looking at them. And we can move them accordingly because of that innate sense.
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