Wiktionary
modulatory
a. Of or pertaining to modulation.
Usage examples of "modulatory".
Use one or more modulatory neurotransmitters to broadcast a message to all relevant parts of the brain that a non-routine circumstance is occurring.
It may be that both types of learned information are encoded in the connections and strengths of connections found on each individual neuron, but in a way which allows one or the other type of information to dominate the response of the neuron to its inputs, according to the effects of modulatory neurotransmitters on those connections.
He avoided not only the modulatory monotony of the classical school, but, especially, the commonplace endings which marred so many classical compositions.