Sensory Modalities – Particle → Pattern → Understanding

1. Light

• Particle: Photon – quantum of electromagnetic radiation
  
• Pattern:
  
  • Wavelength/Frequency → color
    
  • Amplitude → brightness
    
  • Phase/Polarization → additional light properties
    
• Understanding:
  
  • Visual perception of color, shape, motion

2. Sound

• Particle:
  
  • Classical view → no discrete particle, sound is a mechanical wave in a medium
    
  • Quantum view → phonon – quantized vibration in solids
    
• Pattern:
  
  • Frequency → pitch
    
  • Amplitude → loudness
    
  • Waveform → timbre/quality
    
• Understanding:
  
  • Auditory perception of tone, speech, music

3. Touch

• Particle:
  
  • No single “touch particle”
    
  • Mechanical forces transmitted by atoms/molecules, mediated by electrons in bonds (electromagnetic force)
    
• Pattern:
  
  • Pressure → firmness
    
  • Vibration → texture/grain
    
  • Temperature → thermal change
    
• Understanding:
  
  • Tactile perception of shape, texture, temperature, weight