Smiling, Collins recalled his most salient memory of Mutombo -- when he held the ball and lay euphorically on the court after leading the eighth-seeded Denver Nuggets to a first-round upset over the Karl-coached Seattle SuperSonics.
A salient memory I have of that period is of watching my mother get dressed for one of those parties.
Often a connection to a scientist is cited as a student's number one salient memory of the day.
But, with the help of my still-friend Ben who provided a few salient memory-jogging details, here's what I recall.
Subsequent analyses have shown greater connectivity between the supramarginal gyrus and occipital areas when a salient perceptual stimulus is detected, but greater connectivity with the MTL when a salient memory is detected (Cabeza et al., 2011).
Accordingly, a prototypical emotion from this class was Nostalgia, which is often related to the evocation of personally salient autobiographical memories (Barrett et al. 2010).
Moreover frequent events can become typical and reported as less salient and memory strategies may result in frequent events collapsing into a generic memory rather than in separate events [ 45].
It may be that some habitual actions proceed less mindfully than others (Wood, Quinn, & Kashy, 2002), some contextual cues are less salient in memory, or individual differences exist in the ability to recall cognitions and environments.
