Kinaesthetic Memory

Kinaesthetic Memory is the sensation by which bodily position, weight, muscle tension, and movement are perceived. How we receive information in this form is by using our senses (shown in diagram above) to enable our body to memorize the information going in.

HOW does this memorizing take place?

Scientists have discovered that there are a large number of internal brain structures which work together with the input and output brain structures to form fleeting images in the mind. (2003) Using these images, we learn to interpret input signals, process them, and formulate output responses in a deliberate, conscious,way.

But after a while, the "seeing-thinking-doing" gradually becomes "seeing-doing" because your muscles seem to "know" and "remember" just what to do. What you're learning now is speed, i.e. how to perform the task carefully and quickly. That's muscle memory.

Scientists call this "kinaesthetic memory" or "neuro-muscular facilitation" and they speak of "sensory-motor" learning, since you are combining sensing input, i.e. what you see with your eyes, with motor output, i.e. what you do with your body. 

- Oliver Gaviglioli and Ian Harris (1 Jan 2003). Thinking Visually: Step-by-step Exercises That Promote Visual, Auditory and Kinaesthetic Learning. England: Pembroke Publishing Ltd. 25-54.