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Most people pay no attention to their somesthetic senses.

You are normally aware of the position of various parts of your body at all times through the somesthetic senses.

The thalamus acts as a reception center for the somesthetic sensations touch, pain, heat, cold, and the muscle senses.

Within the somesthetic nucleus, physiological maps, including in humans, have found a spatial separation between the representation of the tactile and the deep stimuli.

His hands have the largest neural representation in the somesthetic cortex, his head the smallest: but he's always trying to hide the one behind the other.

OUR MIND 327 area, the auditory, visual, and somesthetic association areas all come together.

Experimental work is done on the vision, auditory and somesthetic systems, development of the spinal cord and of locomotor mechanisms.

Even this is overgenerous, since one important somesthetic sense, that of pain, is not represented here; it is received in lower portions of the brain.

Somatic senses are sometimes referred to as somesthetic senses, with the understanding that somesthesis includes touch, proprioception and (depending on usage) also haptic perception.

American Journal of Chinese Medicine 1995;23(1):11-4 It is known from previous work that acupuncture stimulation modifies the somesthetic afferent to different extends depending on the acupoint studied.

The word "haptic" can refer explicitly to active exploration of an environment (particularly in experimental psychology and physiology), but is often used to refer to the whole of the somesthetic experience.

There is also a visual association area in the occipital lobe surrounding the actual visual area, and a somesthetic association area behind the somesthetic area.

However, his 94 core publications (from a total of 234) can be organized around seven themes: attention, cutaneous sensitivity, somesthetic perception, taste, visual perception, 'facial' vision, and memory and cognitive processes.

These are the generalized body senses not requiring any specialized sensory organs.0 The sensory area is therefore sometimes referred to in more limited fashion as the somesthetic area (soh'mes-thet'ik; "body sensation" G).

This article describes the behavior of motor cortex neurons recorded in macaque monkeys (Macaca mulatta) which had been trained to make extension and flexion movements about the elbow in response to auditory, visual, or somesthetic cues.

He noted that the underlying disconnection mechanism is improved by the facilitating effect of unblocking methods (in the tactile, somesthetic, auditory, and visual systems), so that pathways other than the one impaired by the brain lesion are used.

It is not yet certain whether the somesthetic activity in area 5 is a kinesthetic representation that is sequential to and hierarchically superior to that in SI, or whether it is a parallel representation with separate and distinct functions.

Alternate term for this is somaesthetic aura.

Limit-experience is a type of somaesthetic "edgework" that goes on to test the limits of ordered reality.

Shusterman himself works in all three somaesthetic subdisciplines:

Somaesthetic Design.

Performing the Renaissance Body and Mind: Somaesthetic Style and Devotional Practice at the Sacro Monte di Varallo.

Abdominal aura (also known as visceral aura and epigastric aura) is used to denote a type of somatosensory or somaesthetic aura that typically manifests itself as a rising epigastric sensation.

It contains optic components as well as somaesthetic: that is, we have a pattern of brain organisation related to the pattern of muscular tension, the postural system of the body, awareness of position and weight as well as the figure of the body.