Our work, along with many previous studies (e.g. Gale et al., 2008), lends further support for the idea that dopaminergic mechanisms involved in reward and motivation and/or salience influence the function of the AFP.
Results suggest that immediately following positive news coverage of Obama's handling of the storm's aftermath, Sandy's salience positively influenced attitudes toward Obama, but that by election day, reminders of the hurricane became a drag instead of a boon for the President.
Similarly, longer launch times or fewer launches to the girl (due to its hypothetically lower salience) would influence looks to the girl both when hearing 'girl' and when hearing 'man'.
Researchers have argued that salience is also influenced by top-down factors (e.g., training or prior knowledge), particularly for tasks that simulate real world decisions (Fabrikant, Hespanha, & Hegarty, 2010; Hegarty, Canham, & Fabrikant, 2010; Henderson, 2007).
As in Experiment 1, we ran two independent saliency models to check whether our manipulations had influenced the salience of the region where the manipulation had been made.
These data suggest that, in healthy women, the modulation of attention by the emotional salience of stimuli is influenced by glucocorticoid hormone concentrations.
Through two experimental studies, this work explored the frequency of relation-based and property-based combinations in embedded design solutions, and how the specifics of the given building blocks, i.e. salience, relatedness and number, influenced the produced combinations.
Participants' knowledge of their genetic risk status appears to have influenced both salience and enactment of the parental role, and the effect varied based on carrier status.
In difficult VS tasks, it has been found that the reaction time (RT) is influenced by salience factors, such as the target-distractor similarity, and this finding is usually regarded as evidence for a guidance of attention by preattentive mechanisms.
Current views claim that these responses essentially reflect the salience of sensory events27 and that salience, in turn, influences perceptual processes.
