What is the sense of movement?

While the sense of movement involves many factors, including visual perception of moving objects, balance and feeling for weight, the book distinctively focuses on kinaesthesia. The science of kinaesthetic sensation is the outcome of research on motor control, volition, ‘bodily intelligence’ (or tacit bodily knowledge) and the psycho-physiology of perception. Understanding the nature and significance of kinaesthetic sensation first requires clarification of the very varied usage of key words and concepts – kinaesthesia, proprioception and haptic sense. The chapter thus describes the way a diverse literature, in both the sciences and the humanities, writes about the sense.