SENSORIAL
Human beings require massive amounts of sensory stimulation in order to develop appropriately and interact properly with the world around them. Information from the world around us is taken in by our 5 senses and processed and then integrated by our brains. This sensorial learning is the basis for all human knowledge and learning.
VESTIBULAR
The vestibular system is the system that is responsible for balance, motion, equilibrium, and spatial orientation. It is the system that we rely on to keep us upright, standing, and able to move around our environment.
It ties the eye, the muscles, the joints, and vestibular organs to the brain and allows us to take in the world around us. It sends messages to the brain that enable us to know where our bodies and heads are within our surroundings.
The vestibular system is constantly learning as the body moves and finds its way through the world. When the body is still or sedentary the vestibular system may become weak or begin deteriorating.
Sensory receptors pick up physical motion and environmental input and send the information to the brain stem. The brain stem then translates the information into usable cognition in the form of new pathways. Information is passed through these new pathways to various parts of the body, such as muscles, in order to facilitate complex movement through the environment.
PROPRIOCEPTIVE
Proprioceptive input is the unconscious awareness of sensations coming from joints, muscles, ligaments, and tendons. This sense situates a person's ability to place body parts in a position in space and to judge movements within the environment. This system is the unconscious awareness of the self within an environment.
Children must be exposed to various physical tasks that test their ability to exert force and carry out skills in an appropriate manner. Humans gain proprioceptive abilities through sensory input such as touch. Practicing various fine motor skills such as grasping objects and transference.
Developing a high functioning proprioceptive system allows children to be fluent and natural within the environment. It also enables them to move gracefully through a variety of tasks and ventures.
TEMPORAL
The temporal lobe is one of four main lobes of the brain. The main functions of the temporal lobe include:
- visual perception
- auditory perception
- emotional responses
- memory formation and growth
- speech
The brain uses acetylchlorine to communicate with muscles as well as dopamine to help regulate fine motor development. As the body moves, skeletal muscles are able to connect to the brain and help grow new neural connections. As neurons are created, resistance to damage and stress increases.
Exercise also increases oxygen flow into the lobes which reduces brain-bound free radicals. In the last decade, research has found that an increase in oxygen is always accompanied by an elevation in mental sharpness.