what function of proprioception?
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Propioception tells you how streched or under what tension your muscles are.  When you close your eyes, and move your arms and legs, you still know, almost exactly, where your limbs are-how far away from each other, what shape your fingers are in, etc, because propioception tells you how stretched or relaxed each muscle is.  It also tells you how heavy or light something is, based on the tension on your muscle.  It has to be learned, and is generally learned in infancy and early childhood, but athletes and weightlfters show that you can continue to hone this, and sharpen your sensation with practice.  Propioception is strongly effected by alcohol, and is why they do the "touch your nose with your eyes closed" test, because this is a fairly pure test of propioception.
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thigmotropism : The turning or bending response of an organism upon direct contact with a solid surface or object. Also called stereotropism
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Adaptation of flight.
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Probably compensation for an unnatural move...it doesn't feel right, so your body tries to compensate for it.
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For realism and extra marks, pay attention to the joints. Different joints in the body have different combination of what's called 'Degrees of Freedom' - Simply stated, how many different ways it can move...\n\nIn the physical world there are a total of 6 DofF, the three translations and three rotations. Human body joints typically only add rotational DofF between two of your body parts; Consider the elbow - It only has 1 rotational DofF - very similar to the hinge on a door. Wheras the should provides all three rotational degrees of freedom - Stick you arm straight out to your slide palm down, now rotate your palm face up - that rotated your arm around the axis of your arm. Now swing your arm forward and back, 2nd axis, now up and down, 3rd axis. This type your joint you can build with a ball-in-socket type joint.
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To allow positive and negative motion so that you can bend the elbow or the leg.  Gotta have one to push and one to pull it back.
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See the link and scroll down to "earthworm" for an interesting discussion of its segments and what they do.  One segment has the brain which controls movement.  Good luck.
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The body's ability to maintain equilibrium is complex, and involves several senses and significant interpretation by the brain.  Vision is quite important, though (one of the reasons elderly have balance problems).\n\n"Vision plays a significant role in balance. Approximately twenty percent of the nerve fibers from the eyes interact with the vestibular system."\nhttp://www.nora.cc/patient_area/balance_illusions_movement.html\n\n\nHope that helps!
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yes its a natural body function
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Your "thought" of movement starts in the precentral gyrus, the signal travels to the cerebellum via pontine nuclei, then the action potential is sent, but it is sloppy movement and still needs calibration.  This is done after afferent signals from the proprioceptive neurons combine with the first set of efferents and the 2 are compared.  The signals then are refined by the precentral gyrus and secondary impusles for the same movement are again sent down the pathway.
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Not just reaction time but the other senses also. HEARING-you cover one ear, so 50% of hearing is obstructed. SIGHT, since one hand is at ear, you definely cannot turn fully to the direction of that occupied hand. FEEL- One hand on the wheel only due to the other holding the cell phone. \nThe time it takes to answer and or call someone and dial will occupy ALL of the above SENSES leaving driving to mere momentum with no attentive driver! I've seen some people just hit and still won't get off the phone!\nSMELL and TASTE probably doesn't apply , yet some science believes the lack of one sense enhances the other.\nOh yea, to add COMMON SENSE is never used!
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Its overall function is to collect information about the external conditions in relation to the body's internal state, to analyze this information, and to initiate appropriate responses to satisfy certain needs (Maintain Homeostasis). The most powerful of these needs is survival.
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Ok, Franko got it started-The action potential is propagated along the sensory axons, through the ulnar or other nerve (depending on exactly what part of your hand touched the stove), through the dorsal root ganglia (which is where the cell bodies for the sensory axon live) to the spinal cord.  There, they will release neurotransmitters at synapses with secondary sensory dendrites and cell bodies (which will send a signal on up the spinal cord to the brain) In addition, they will release neurotransmitters at synapses with interneurons, which synapse with motor neurons.  There motorneurons send axons to a number of muscles, such as the bicep.  A signal is generated at the motorneuron, sent down the axon, which then terminates on motor end-plates, which stimulate the muscle to contract, and thus pull the hand away.
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Predominately touch and pressure receptors in the skin (in this case on the hand) provide feedback about the weight (and texture) of an object.\nIf a heavy object is picked up then other receptors are involved to a greater extent. These are the stretch receptors in the muscles.
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http://www.ofesite.com/health/reflex/reflex.htm
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Plesse go to this website \n\nhttp://www.umm.edu/spinecenter/education/anatomy_and_function_of_the_spine.html
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D;hearing,\nbodily function:bowel movement