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Modality
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Modality can refer to:
Humanities
Linguistics
- Modality (semiotics), the channel by which signs are transmitted (oral, gesture, written)
- Linguistic modality, covering expressions of how the world might be and should be. This includes expressions of necessity, permissibility and probability, and negations of these.
- Linguistic modality is often not sharply distinguished from grammatical mood.
Medicine
- Stimulus modality, a type of physical phenomenon that one can sense, such as temperature and sound.
- In cognitive neuroscience, cognitive psychology and the philosophy of perception, any of the qualitatively distinct types of sensation, such as sight, hearing, acceleration, heat and cold.
- In psychotherapy, a method of therapeutic approach.
- In medical imaging, any of the various types of equipment or probes used to acquire images of the body, such as radiography, ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging.
- Any method of therapy that involves therapeutic treatment.
Science and Technology
- Transportation modality
- modal logic, a form of logic which distinguishes between (logically) "necessary truths" and "contingent truths". Related topics include possibility, impossibility, actuality, and related predicates.
- modality (human-computer interaction), a path of communication between the human and the computer, such as vision or touch.
- In computer science and particularly computer vision, the type of input. For example, black-and-white, color and infrared represent three different modalities for the acquisition of an image.
Other uses
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