Popularity is also affected, positively or negatively, by salient events like scandals, wars and foreign policy crises.
The presence of salient events like scandals and wars that might push approval up or down (based on previous research).
In early periods the kings' years of reign were not consecutively numbered but were named for salient events, and lists were made of the names.
But it also points to the potential of the selective signals for bringing to light salient events in human prehistory as modern humans dispersed from the ancestral homeland in northeast Africa and adapted to novel environments.
My most recent book, The Better Angels of Our Nature, is about the historic decline of violence, a fact that I argue is underappreciated precisely because the human mind works the way Kahneman says it works, namely, that our sense of risk and danger is influenced by salient events that are available from memory.
In the course of the play, which the actresses performed while sitting in a row of chairs onstage — great boots, Swoosie Sarahah goes over the salient events of her life, any or all of which may or may not have happened.
Davidson begins by describing an experiment the psychologist Daniel Simons and I conducted that illustrated what she calls "attention blindness," the surprising failure to notice salient events when our attention is directed to other events — even ones happening in the same place.
That is, we study salient events and learn from them.
Our assumption is that salient events in environmental sound recordings can be generally classified using the mentioned taxonomy with different levels of confidence.
It can be used for training of event detection and summarization algorithms, as well as for evaluation of the automatically selected salient events and the produced summaries.
1 COGNIMUSE was a research project, where the multisensory and sensory-semantic information modeling was investigated, integrating all three modalities to detect salient events.
