The phrase "salient cause" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a prominent or significant reason for an event or situation.
Example: "The salient cause of the project's failure was a lack of adequate funding."
Alternatives: "key reason" or "main factor."
The reduction in fracture risk associated with use of hormone therapy is comparable to that from bisphosphonate drugs, and its use addresses the most salient cause of this disease that so disproportionately affects older women: loss of estrogen.
However, both at the global level (Lambin and Meyfroidt 2011; Mace et al. 2005) and more specifically in Kenyan and other East African rangelands (Western et al. 2009), habitat loss is increasingly emerging as the most salient cause of species decline.
'The cause', relative to a given context, simply refers to something like the most salient cause at the context, just like 'the dog' refers to something like the most salient dog at the context; that is all a matter of what 'the' means and nothing at all to do with causation, or with dogs for that matter).
-- that "the salient cause of [Sotomayor's] career has been advancing persons of color, over whites, based on race and national origin".
Thus, the addition of a new sound to the scene should be especially salient, causing participants to make fewer errors in the addition than in the removal condition.
The causal attribution is unequivocal and fully consistent with the shared cultural model of health and illness in which wind is a salient external cause of disease.
Shifts in another agent's gaze direction are both behaviorally salient and cause involuntary orienting of attention toward the gazed-at location (Friesen and Kingstone 1998; Driver et al. 1999; Langton and Bruce 1999).
For one salient reason: because they work.
Causal responsibility for an event accrues to just the salient metaphysical causes of the event.
The air stimulus (a mechanosensory stimulation) carrying the odor might also elicit interference with the ongoing PER (Figure 8), although our results established that odor was more salient in causing the proboscis retraction (Figure 1).
According to this idea, the increased perceptual complexity of visual search displays containing a salient distractor causes a need for perceptual resolution that completes prior to the deployment of attention.
