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Proprioception gives the brain awareness of body position in space

Receptors in muscles tendons and joints communicate limb location continuously

Proprioception is often called the body's hidden sixth sense. Specialised sensory receptors called muscle spindles and Golgi tendon organs continuously report muscle stretch and joint angles to the brain, allowing you to touch your nose with your eyes closed.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: Receptors in muscles tendons and joints communicate limb location continuously. The figure is taken from Encyclopaedia Britannica, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a human body fact?: Yes. It sits on the Human Body shelf, one of 1,090 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.