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modulatory

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A universe of regulatory and modulatory elements hides in the erstwhile junk.

From Nature • Sep. 8, 2015

Neurons that use dopamine send massive modulatory projections to the prefrontal cortex and the deep gray nuclei that control our voluntary actions; it may help them restore a normal level of arousal.

From Slate • Mar. 17, 2014

As such, it is a disease that affects the sensory, emotional, motivational, cognitive and modulatory pathways.

From Time • Mar. 4, 2011

It abounds in modulatory changes and expresses, throughout, the note of mystical exaltation so prominent in Franck's nature.

From Music: An Art and a Language by Spalding, Walter Raymond

The hearer94 is conducted through a musical excursion; every device of rhythmic variety, of modulatory change and polyphonic imitation being employed to enhance the beauty of the themes and to reveal their latent possibilities.

From Music: An Art and a Language by Spalding, Walter Raymond