The Sensation Channel In this channel, I refer to physical sensations that arise from within the body, from receptors lying in the interior of our organisms. These sensations are also known in the literature as interoceptive. They ascend via nerve impulses from the interior of the body to the thalamus in the upper brain stem, where they are transferred to many, if not most, regions of the brain. Four subsystems, or categories, make up the sensation channel in order of increasing depth: the kinesthetic, the proprioceptive, the vestibular and the visceral receptors.
