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Tactile Modality
Angie Laird edited this page Mar 17, 2020
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The tactile modality is the stimulus modality pertaining to the sense of contact via the skin with other, external objects.
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Stimulus Modality
A vibrating device held to the skin, whether or not it was intended to be painful, would have the tactile modality. It may have the subtype of a pain modality, depending on its strength.
The tactile modality covers a number of sub-terms (see related concepts). We acknowledge that there is some argument whether pain, pressure, and thermal modalities are sub-types of the tactile modality; but currently that seems to have little logical impact on this structure. If it is shown to lead to a logical error at some point we can change it.
2010/10/29
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Curation Complete Dec 2010