Moreover, the finding that anomalous attribution of emotional meaning to neutral faces is observed only in MES patients suggests that an increased attribution of salience to social stimuli is a characteristic of social cognition in advanced stages of the disorder.
Drugs-of-abuse may increase the salience of drug cues by sensitizing the dopaminergic (DA) system (Robinson and Berridge, 1993), leading to differential attention to smoking stimuli.
In both cases, the role of connections between cortical neurons is that of increasing the salience of certain stimulus parameters, specifically orientation or direction of movement.
The additional emotional arousal that is often reported in the background and/or at the time of onset could certainly increase the salience of sensory information arising during a physical trigger and facilitate this process.
Another strategy is to increase intrinsic motivation towards realizing health, as behavior change is more likely when people are motivated by intrinsic rather than extrinsic motivations [ 67] as well as to increase the salience of the consequences of (habitual) behaviors that may impede this goal.
26 However, the removal of brand elements has been proven to increase the salience of health warnings and decrease misperceptions regarding the harm of smoking.
But it is too early for Mr Cameron to bank this advantage: a spate of insolvencies and redundancies would increase the salience of Labour's talking points.
Rowe [ 114] encourages the use of stimulus dimensions, such as color, that increase the salience of the discriminative stimuli.
The results presented here, and those of previous studies, speak to the media's ability not only to increase the salience of an issue [1], but to modulate an individuals' understanding of the severity of an infectious disease.
Thus the mirror can be said to increase the salience of the self's own personal standards of evaluation (Another hypothesis, though, is that it increases the salience of standards of social evaluation, i.e., how others might judge him. Batson tested this possibility and did not find support for it (2002: 331–334)).
