Proprioception

Question 1

Proprioception

Answer 1

Ability to perceive the position of movement of our body and localize ourselves in space

Question 2

Mechanoreceptors= proprioceptors

Answer 2

Located in locomotor system

• Muscle spindle receptors: sensitive to stretching
• Golgi tendon organs: tension of tendons
• Joint receptors: signal position of joints
  -… in skin and brain signals help the body to sense and predict movement

Question 3

Importance of proprioception

Answer 3

If nerves are damaged you use the ability to control movement properly,
If vision is also lost you lose sense of the location of your limbs and experience loss of ownership

Question 4

Info from proprioception

Answer 4

• Automatic responses
• Complex automatic and conscious (usually become integrated with information of other sensory modalities)
• we focus on visuals and lot

Question 5

Example for different sensory modalities

Answer 5

Rubber hand illusion (RHT)
-Experiment Aufbau
Synchrony of tactile and visual information is the same so they believe the rubber hand is their own hand

Question 6

Proprioceptive accuracy

Answer 6

The ability to perceive proprioceptive information consciously

Measurable:
-> joint position reproductive test: your body gets moved a certain position and they have to redo the same position with eyes closed

Positively associated with motor performance

Can be improved

Question 7

Proprioception in psych

Answer 7

Input of it plays a role in emotional experience
- different positions can relate to bigger self confidence
- reduced muscle tension relaxes