sense modality

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sense modality - a particular sense

sensory faculty, sentiency, sentience, sense, sensation - the faculty through which the external world is apprehended; "in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing"

visual modality, visual sense, vision, sight - the ability to see; the visual faculty

somatosense - any of the sensory systems that mediate sensations of pressure and tickle and warmth and cold and vibration and limb position and limb movement and pain

audition, auditory modality, auditory sense, sense of hearing, hearing - the ability to hear; the auditory faculty; "his hearing was impaired"

gustation, gustatory modality, sense of taste, taste - the faculty of distinguishing sweet, sour, bitter, and salty properties in the mouth; "his cold deprived him of his sense of taste"

olfaction, olfactory modality, sense of smell, smell - the faculty that enables us to distinguish scents

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Marks defines as "the anomalous arousal of sensations or perceptions in a secondary sense modality, in addition to sensations or perceptions in the primary sense modality normally associated with the stimulus" (p.

VARIETIES OF ANOMALOUS EXPERIENCE: EXAMINING THE SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE

A question that has not yet been considered is whether or not individuals develop images primarily in one sense modality, or whether such images are in fact more often than not experienced in more than one sense at once (multimodal).

Sensory imagery in individuals who are blind and sighted: examining unimodal and multimodal forms

Many alleged counter-examples to intentionalism, the thesis that the phenomenology of perceptual experiences of a given sense modality supervenes on the contents of experiences of that modality, can be avoided by adopting a liberal view of the sorts of properties that can be represented in perceptual experience.

The Philosophical Quarterly: April 2010, Vol. 60, No. 239

In sum, the way in which each sense modality links us to the world is different.