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Exteroception | Our sense of stimuli originating outside of the body. For example: Vision, Smell, Hearing, Taste, Touch, Temperature, and Pressure
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Interoception | Our sense of stimuli originating inside the body. For example: Heart rate, blood pressure, oxygenation, pH, other organ functions. | ||
Plasticity | “Plasticity, then, in the wide sense of the word, means the possession of a structure weak enough to yield to an influence, but strong enough not to yield all at once. Organic matter, especially nervous tissue, seems endowed with a very extraordinary degree of plasticity.” (William James, 1890). | ||
Proprioception | Our sense of our body’s position in space and time, essentially our movement and awareness map. For example: Joint angles, position, tension, speed, quality of movement, etc. |