The Proprioceptive Modality is two sub modalities experienced as one: The Kinesthetic and Vestibular Modalities
How strong, for example, the urge is, when one sees a really cute baby, to just touch it. Somehow, simply looking isn't enough.
The Proprioceptive Modality is also, two sub modalities experienced as one. These are the Kinesthetic and Vestibular Modalities.
The transducer for the Kinesthetic modality is the system of nerve endings in the joints of the body, and in the muscles.
Like the sense of touch, it is very important to the development of body awareness. In fact in cases where this process fails, a person can totally loose the consciousness of a body part!
Dr. Sacks tells of a patient who violently threw himself out of bed on morning because someone had slipped a "cadaver's leg" in his bed.
In reality, it was his own leg but he had lost any awareness of its presence.
NOTES: Get some more infor on Dr. Sacks.