What Is the Sense Called That Involves Feedback from Receptors

question 20

Multiple Choice

What is the sense called that involves feedback from receptors in our joints, muscles, and ligaments traveling to the part of the brain that controls movement to give us a sense of where the different parts of our body are in space without our needing to look at them?

• A) Neurogenesis
• B) Proprioception
• C) Coordination
• D) Proximodistal

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