Salience
Salience is a term used in psychology, neuroscience, and other fields to describe the quality of being particularly noticeable or important; the state or condition of standing out relative to neighboring items. Salience may be the result of emotional, motivational or cognitive factors and is not necessarily associated with physical factors such as intensity, clarity or size.
Psychology[edit | edit source]
In psychology, salience is the quality of a stimulus that makes it stand out, makes it more noticeable or important. Stimuli that are salient for a particular individual or under certain circumstances dictate where most of their attention and focus will go.
Neuroscience[edit | edit source]
In neuroscience, salience is used, among other uses, to account for which stimuli the brain processes and how these are differentially processed. The salience network is a large scale brain network identified in neuroimaging studies that is believed to be integral in detecting and orienting attention towards the most salient stimuli.
Sociology[edit | edit source]
In sociology, salience refers to the prominence or importance of a particular social issue, characteristic or relationship. The salience of a social element can depend on social contexts and individual or group perspectives.
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