Almost everyone has experienced that familiar moment: you walk through a room you've crossed dozens of times, misjudge the position of a table or door frame and suddenly your little toe meets the furniture. For some people, however, stubbing theirtoes seems to happen repeatedly. It can be tempting to call it clumsiness, but psychology and neuroscience offer a more nuanced explanation. Repeated collisions can involve attention, proprioception, spatial awareness, motor prediction and sensory feedback. Proprioception refers to the brain's awareness of where the body is positioned and how it is moving through space, while sensory information from the feet contributes importantly to balance and movement.
