modality

(noun)

Also known as stimulus modality, it is one feature of a complex stimulus; for example, temperature, pressure, sound, or taste.

Related Terms

Examples of modality in the following topics:

  • Sensory Modalities

    • A sensory modality (also called a stimulus modality) is an aspect of a stimulus or what is perceived after a stimulus.
    • A sensory modality (also called a stimulus modality) is an aspect of a stimulus or what is perceived after a stimulus.
    • The sensory modality for vision is light.
    • The sensory modality for audition is sound.
    • Integration of all sensory modalities occurs when multimodal neurons receive sensory information that overlaps with different modalities.

  • Modal Jazz and Folk Music

    • Some jazz and folk music is also considered modal and also uses the Greek/medieval mode names.
    • Modal European (and American) folk music tends to be older tunes that have been around for hundreds of years.
    • Modal jazz, on the other hand, is fairly new, having developed around 1960.
    • It is important to remember when discussing these types of music that it does not matter what specific note the modal scale starts on.
    • Check to make sure that your "modal scale" agrees with all the things that you have written about it already.

  • Modes and Ragas

    • In these and other modal traditions, the rules for constructing a piece of music are quite different than the rules for music that is based on a scale.

  • Other Non-Western Modal Musics

  • Modality and levels of analysis

    • Network analysts describe such structures as "multi-modal. " In our school example, individual students and teachers form one mode, classrooms a second, schools a third, and so on.
    • The ability of network methods to map such multi-modal relations is, at least potentially, a step forward in rigor.
    • Having claimed that social network methods are particularly well suited for dealing with multiple levels of analysis and multi-modal data structures, it must immediately be admitted that social network analysis rarely actually takes much advantage.

  • Modal Mixture

    • Modal mixture (also called modal borrowing) refers to the use of chords belonging to a parallel key—for example, a passage in F major incorporating one or more chords from F minor.
    • Note that the use of the leading-tone in place of the subtonic, or a melodic-minor figure (sol–la–ti–do) in a minor key does not constitute modal mixture.

  • Mode

    • It is also possible for there to be more than one mode for the same distribution of data, (bi-modal, or multi-modal).
    • In cases such as these, it may be better to consider using the median or mean, or group the data in to appropriate intervals, and find the modal class.

  • External Expansions

    • Modal mixture (also called modal borrowing) refers to the use of chords belonging to a parallel key—for example, a passage in F major incorporating one or more chords from F minor.
    • Note that the use of the leading-tone in place of the subtonic, or a melodic-minor figure (sol–la–ti–do) in a minor key does notconstitute modal mixture.

  • Jazz and "Dorian Minor"

    • (See Beginning Harmonic Analysis for more about how chords are classified within a key. ) The student who is interested in modal jazz will eventually become acquainted with all of the modal scales.

  • Vestibulocochlear (VIII) Nerve

    • The vestibulocochlear nerve (also known as the auditory vestibular nerve and cranial nerve VIII) has axons that carry the modalities of hearing and equilibrium.
    • The vestibulocochlear nerve has axons that carry the modalities of hearing and equilibrium.