Following this early sensory analysis, the integration of significant emotional acoustical cues and the detection of emotional salience takes place within 200 ms after stimulus onset as, for example, reflected in variations of the P200 amplitude for basic vocal emotions compared to a neutral baseline [14], or in Mismatch Negativity (MMN) differences between emotional and neutral stimuli [15].
This ensured that the permanent and transient landmarks, as well as being matched for their perceptual features (size, visual salience, and other features see above), were placed in equivalent locations within the environment.
Using resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging, whole-brain functional connectivity maps were derived from seeds placed within the default mode (DMN), salience (SAL), and dorsal attention networks (DAN).
It therefore appears well placed to relay signals about the salience of sensory stimuli directly to the cortex, and represents an obvious target for manipulation to recreate those increases in cortical cholinergic efflux observed when animals are actively engaged in a behavioural task (Rasmusson & Szerb, 1976; Dalley et al., 2001).
Due to the salience of the food item subjects might have been so focused on the door behind which the food was placed that they were unable to detach their attention from it and take into account other aspects of the task (the other door) that would have allowed them to solve the task.
Given the salience of removing children from the family home and placing them in foster care, this should be a sentinel event that triggers a range of interventions aimed at preventing negative adult psychiatric, health and social outcomes.
Racial salience should be resisted, in reproduction as in elections, because placing donor front and center expresses the problematic idea that single-race families should be preferred to multiracial ones and that families should be set apart by race.
A complex independent question is how much intentional emotional manipulation for example, placing the good news both at the beginning and also at the end of a diagnostic report so as to lend it more salience is compatible with informed consent.
This implies that communication behavior is more important in determining whether people spend time in the same place than cognitive salience.
The continuing salience of race as a research variable places researchers in the unenviable position of having to negotiate complicated, and often controversial, terrain.
