Stimulus modality

In sensory physiology is known as the sensory modality complexes of sensations such as sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch. The excitations by physicochemical stimuli are conducted by nerve fibers in specific nerve pathways to the bodies responsible for triggering the sensation Hinrnneuronengruppen. Simply put, there are reserved transmission channels (communication channels), each set certain addresses in the brain.

A distinction is also in accordance with Ayres in:

• Vestibular sensory modality ( sense of balance )
• Proprioceptive sensory modality ( low sensitivity )
• Tactile sensory modality ( surface sensitivity )

Decisive for the assignment to a modality after formulated by Johannes Müller law of specific sense energies are not the stimulus itself, but the sense organ by which it is perceived. Within a modality, a distinction different qualities (eg, stabbing or foul smell, in red and green vision).