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Every day, people have to find their way around in time and place. It is important to meet deadlines at a certain time and place. To make this possible, humans have a cognitive ability - the ability to orient themselves.

The ability to react or the ability to react is the ability of a person to react as quickly and appropriately as possible to stimuli from the environment. After an acoustic, optical or haptic stimulus, we always react with a motor

The coupling ability coordinates partial body movements in the context of an overall movement or an action goal. This learned skill is one of seven coordinative skills. Coupling ability can be trained, but can be done through the central nervous system

The ability to make rhythm is the ability to adapt one's own movement rhythm to a given rhythm. These coordinative skills are particularly relevant for sports medicine. It can be caused by inflammation of the central nervous system, bleeding

In everyday life, and especially in sports, it is important to be able to control one's movements in a targeted manner. If the situation changes, the athlete, for example, has to rethink and adapt his movements to the events in the shortest possible time. The necessary requirement for this

The ventilation-perfusion ratio describes the quotient of pulmonary ventilation and pulmonary perfusion. The normal values ​​of the parameter are between 0.8 and one for a healthy person. Deviations lies the principle of an intrapulmonary

Neurons are organized in a network-like structure in the human organism. They are connected to one another via neurophysiological convergence. A neuron receives inputs from various other neurons and sums these inputs

With the ability to adapt to light and dark, the human eyes are able to adapt to the light conditions. There are two opposing processes of the visual system. Disturbances of the light-dark adaptation can occur in

The hormone production is localized in different places in the body. The endocrine system includes organs that produce hormones such as the pineal, thyroid, parathyroid, pituitary, thymus, pancreas, ovaries, testes and adrenal glands

The functional position of the hand represents the mechanically most favorable constellation for certain hand activities. Functional impairments can significantly reduce the quality of life.

Haptics is a sensory quality that lets people feel objects or subjects on the basis of active exploration. Haptic perception differs from tactile perception, which corresponds to passive skin perception. Multi-sensory

Tactile perception refers to the passive sensation of touch which, together with haptic perception, corresponds to the sense of touch. In tactile perception, stimulus molecules from the environment bind to mechanoreceptors and become part of the CNS

Many top athletic performances are characterized by an extraordinary ability to balance. On the other hand, disturbances can significantly impair the quality of life.

A positive body feeling is the familiar, pleasant feeling in dealing with your own body. It is an important prerequisite for strong self-esteem and develops in early childhood.

One of the basic attitudes of people is sitting. Babies learn to sit at an age of five to nine months.

The lactation period describes the time window in which the mother breastfeeds her baby. During this time, it feeds exclusively or mainly on breast milk until it runs dry, the baby no longer wants it or the mother decides to stop breastfeeding

Imagination is the human imagination. We understand it to be the ability to create images in our mind's eye. Spatial imagination is often used in this context

In the urea cycle, nitrogenous metabolic end products are converted to urea. This biochemical process takes place in the liver. The urea is then excreted through the kidneys.

Motivation drives people to action and gives them the mental and emotional energy to carry out ideas. It is an integral part of human decision making and decision enforcement. Hence influenced

Innate and acquired reflexes accompany us throughout life. If they are disturbed, this can indicate serious illnesses or a result of natural aging. A reflex is always the same reaction to a certain stimulus.