This chapter summarizes the methodological issues and empirical findings on the acuity of perception of interoceptive information, dubbed interoceptive accuracy. Both homeostatic (classic visceroceptive channels, thermosensation, itch, pain, affective touch, muscle fatigue, chemical senses), and somatosensory...
Thus, they tend to be accepted as the standard indices of sleep onset. It is commonly assumed that physiological indications of sleep highly correlate with subjectively experienced sleep. Discrepancies between the two tend to be regarded as “sleep-state misperception.” Regarding this as a “...
Another view, not mutually exclusive, is that output from the locomotor-promoting system provides a negative feedback, via the active immobility pathways, to act as a "brake" on movement, while at the same time maintaining the muscular tonus that is characteristic of active immobility....
What is muscle injury, and how does it heal? What works? What doesn’t? And here’s a curve ball: is your muscle even actually physically damaged? Muscle strain and pain are usually woven together, and often pain alone is mistaken for injury. And there are some other kinds of injury ...
Looks like narcolepsy, particularly what seems to be a sudden and uncontrolled loss of muscle tonus – I don’t know that it’s particularly common in setters, but it shows up in a lot of dogs. Since canine narcolepsy often precipitated by excitement, onset during play is not unexpected. ...
Of or relating to or producing normal tone or tonus in muscles or tissue; A tonic reflex Tonic muscle contraction Tonic Employing variations in pitch to distinguish meanings of otherwise similar words; Chinese is a tonal language Tonic Used of syllables; A tonic syllables carries the main stress...
(obsolete) State of mind; temper; mood. Tone The shade or quality of a colour. Tone The favourable effect of a picture produced by the combination of light and shade, or of colours. This picture has tone. Tone The definition and firmness of a muscle or organ; see also: tonus. Tone ...
A reduction of muscle tone A certain amount of daily exercise is essential to maintain proper body tone and function Voice A sound resembling or reminiscent of vocal utterance The murmuring voice of the forest. Tone Give greater strength or firmness to (the body or a muscle) Exercise tones up...
A reduction of muscle tone A certain amount of daily exercise is essential to maintain proper body tone and function Pitch A form of words used when trying to persuade someone to buy or accept something He put over a very strong sales pitch Tone Give greater strength or firmness to (the bo...
A novel of 18th-century manners. Tone Give greater strength or firmness to (the body or a muscle) Exercise tones up the muscles Manner Practice, style, execution, or method in the arts This fresco is typical of the painter's early manner. Tone Harmonize with (something) in terms of colou...