sense modality

Shifting attention by sense modality (1973b) and across visual space (1997).

In psychology, visual capture is the dominance of vision over other sense modalities in creating a percept.

All activities which engage a human involve the filtering of information coming into sense modalities and hence, brain functioning and consciousness.

In some cases, sound becomes converted into pure sensation, and synesthesia (mixture of sense modalities) occurs.

Consciousness is instead said to be divided into six sense modalities, five for the five senses and sixth for perception of mental phenomena.

With typical Kellogg scientific rigor, he conducted additional experiments to support this conclusion and to rule out "possible involvement of other sense modalities" .

Other sense modalities provide only mixed support for either Weber's law or Fechner's law.

However, Weber himself produced very little experimental data on the topic, and later work showed that the law holds only approximately in the mid range for most sense modalities.

Lopes, Dominic (1997), 'Art Media and the Sense Modalities: Tactile Pictures', Philosophical Quarterly, 47(189): 425-440.

He described synesthesia as a phenomenon of transposition of experience from one sense modality to another, as in unisonous musical tones (Kandinsky 1910, Düchting 1996).

Gunshot location systems generally require one or more sensing modalities to detect either the fact that a weapon has been fired or to detect the projectile fired by the weapon.

Phenomena labeled as being in the uncanny valley can be diverse, involve different sense modalities, and have multiple, possibly overlapping causes, which can range from evolved or learned circuits for early face perception to culturally-shared psychological constructs.