It elicits the emotion of desire, called 'wanting', rather than valence independent attention [ 55].) Would salience explain the higher incidence of responses to conditioned aversive stimuli (35 65%) compared to unpredicted air puffs (<15%) [ 34,37]?
These results indicate that spatial proximity and salience cannot explain the SSI.
Thus unpredicted air puff carries the highest total salience of all events, and salience would not explain the higher incidence of activations to conditioned stimuli compared to air puffs.
The experiment comprised three conditions differing in the pairs of rewards and punishers used, to allow us to determine to what extent any differences in behavior were explained by the salience of the unconditioned stimuli (USs) used.
The incentive-sensitization model of drug craving suggests that chronic drug abuse causes hypersensitivity of the underlying brain circuitry as measured by sensitization, which exacerbates incentive salience and may explain the compulsive drug-seeking that drives addiction [ 38].
Ventricular enlargement may be a result of both brain development and neurodegeneration across life span, and the salience of both aspects may help explain the pervasive finding of ventricular enlargement in schizophrenia.
In fact, foreign policy priorities can partly explain the empirical puzzle introduced earlier regarding the disconnection between the political salience of migration and its numerical magnitude.
Although physical salience, novelty, and generalization are known to affect dopamine responses, they failed to explain the current context effect.
The authors suggested that the patients with obsessive compulsive disorder directed their attention more to the emotional salience of the pictures rather than focusing on the visual details, which would explain the decrease in activation of the occipital cortex.
Motivational salience is by definition common to rewards and punishers and on its own might explain the activations to both reward and punishment in 10-20% of dopamine neurons.
