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DoomGoober t1_izr2nx6 wrote

Odd that the article says propioception is unconscious. Other papers say there are both conscious and unconscious forms of proprioception:

>Proprioception is the sense of body position that is perceived both at the conscious and unconscious levels.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18851800/

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marketrent OP t1_izr444u wrote

>DoomGoober

>Odd that the article says propioception is unconscious. Other papers say there are both conscious and unconscious forms of proprioception:

>https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18851800/

>J Surg Orthop Adv. 2008 Fall.

An excerpt from Somatosensory 1, last revised December 2013:

>UNCONSCIOUS "PROPRIOCEPTION":

>The sensory information discussed above, which is useful for consciousness, is also useful for unconscious functional control of movement. Therefore:

>• The primary afferent axon, upon entering the spinal cord, will have branches (collaterals) to share the sensory signal with "local reflex" neurons, and

>• To share the signal with the cerebellum (works at unconscious level) by a synapse with spinal cord neurons, whose axons form spinocerebellar tracts.

>http://anat403.class.uic.edu/Lectures/lecture6_09.htm

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chirodiesel t1_izsc7nq wrote

It's both. You don't have to be consciously aware of it for it to be engaged, but you can become aware of it more keenly. This is basically what any form of refined motor movement is like a ballerina or a martial artist.

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