any of the specific sensory entities, such as vision, smell, or taste
The type of communication channel used for interaction . This might be, for example, visual, gestural or based on speech. It also covers the way an idea is expressed or perceived, or the manner in which an action is performed. This definition is based on unpublished work of the Multimodal Interaction group.
The sensory channel used to acquire information. Visual, auditory, tactile, kinesthetic, olfactory (odors), and gustatory (taste) are the most common modalities.
is the type of preferred sensory stimulus transduced and relayed by a sensory system
A category of function (vision, hearing and touch are afferent sensory modalities); more specifically, the segment of brain function concerned with a particular aspect of perception or behaviour, e.g., the speech modality.
A specific sensory or motor channel, such as hearing, vision, touch, speech, and arm/hand/finger movement.
(also Way of being) What our perception and intellect perceive as fundamental and substantial aspect "to give itself" of an under examination entity.
A perceptual channel. Visual modality is absent for blind people.
The type of pathway by which information is received in the brain, processed, or by which learning and/or performance occur. Some children have strong preferences for one modality over another, e.g., one child may do better with visually presented material while another child may be do better by aurally presented material.
a channel by which human expression can take place. Ex: auditory-aural visual-manual, visual-graphic
The avenues, pathways, channels, and circuits through which sensory impressions are transmitted to the brain and by which one learns. These consist primarily of the visual, auditory, and motor (tactile-kinesthetic) modalities.
Nature of a sensory stimulus; touch, smell, sound, etc.