Definitions
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- adjective That
transcends sensory modalities , such as vision and hearing. Usually refers to an area of the brain that implements abstract functionality common to more than one source of sensory data. For instance, the areas of the brain concerned with language processing can integrate data from the visual, auditory and tactile areas of the brain.
Etymologies
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supra- + modal
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Examples
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This pattern suggests that girls rely on a supramodal language network, whereas boys process visual and auditory words differently.
Neural Dimorphism and Discrimination Zoe Brain 2008
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The lack of transfer between unimodal groups indicates no central supramodal timing process for this task; however, the audiovisual-to-visual transfer cannot be explained without some form of sensory interaction.
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The model proposed here most naturally fits with an amodal (or supramodal) word space: neither dimension of this space has a purely auditory or visual character, but instead, each sensory modality contributes some evidence in each of the feature dimensions.
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