Still, our findings suggest that in ASD, while the amygdala can be engaged by the transmission of highly salient social information along subcortical routes, the subsequent recruitment of the reciprocally connected regions (eg. the fusiform gyri) is deficient.
They also suggest that the problem of limited accountability can stem from sources other than a lack of information: few voters in the UK chose to punish their MPs for wrongdoing in a situation where this wrongdoing was highly salient and information about it was publicly available and clearly influenced voter perceptions.
Another possibility is that social information is highly salient in any dynamic interaction between people and thus it may affect choices even in unambiguous contexts.
On the other hand, social information has a highly salient status, and seems to be rapidly and automatically processed [15].
This pattern suggests that as a general guideline, display designers might trade redundant target presentation against target salience, reserving highly salient display modes for the most critical signals and presenting information that is less urgent but still time-sensitive in lower salience, redundant signals.
Attention ensures that the brain prioritizes the processing of highly salient and unexpected stimuli at the expense of other ongoing information processing and behaviour [1], [2].
Compared to non-human sounds, the auditory information related to human actions contains many correlated features, some of which are highly salient to the infant (e.g., features related to animacy, meaningful action events, associated visual information, etc).
Rather, at least with the presence of highly salient foveal stimuli, top-down attention mainly serves to suppress distracting information in the periphery.
These findings reveal that vibrotactile sensory channels are highly salient to the perception of surface compliance, and suggest that correlations between vibrotactile sensory information and motor activity may be of broader significance for the control of human locomotion than has been previously acknowledged.
Apparently, subitizing is not always possible for tactile information presented to the fingers, even if the targets are distinguished by a highly salient tactile feature.
