somataesthesis
Noun: The faculty of bodily perception; the collective sensory systems associated with the body. This includes the skin senses (touch, temperature, pain), proprioception (sense of body position and movement), and sensations from the internal organs.
This is a technical, scientific term used primarily in neurology, psychology, and physiology. It refers to the entire system of bodily awareness and sensation. - The study focused on how somataesthesis develops in infants. - Damage to certain neural pathways can impair somataesthesis.
- Somatic Sensory System: This is a more common modern synonym for the same concept.
- Interoception: A related but more specific term referring specifically to the perception of sensations from internal organs, which is one component of somataesthesis.
- Somatosensory (adj): Pertaining to somataesthesis.
- The somatosensory cortex processes tactile information.
- Somatosensation (n): Another term for somataesthesis, often used interchangeably.
- Proprioception (n): The sense of the relative position of one's own body parts and strength of effort being employed in movement, a key component of somataesthesis.
- Somatosensory perception
- Bodily sensation
- Somatic sense
- Somatosensation
This term is a compound of Greek roots: soma (body) and aisthēsis (sensation, perception). It is an umbrella term for all physical sensations arising from within the body, as opposed to the special senses like sight or hearing.
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the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs
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