Salience

Summary and Support

• An introduction to salience points out the following:
  • Salience can signify the state of being noticeable or conspicuous.
  • Salience can be defined in two main ways:
    • As low-level sensory features (this is more prominent):
      • E.g., intensity or stimulus color
    • As high-level affective and cognitive processes:
      • E.g., personal relevance or emotional salience
  • In both the above scenarios, the salience of the objects stems from their relevance to behavior, their conveyance of meaning, or their elicitation of attention.
  • Visual search is the sphere wherein salience detection has undergone the most thorough study.

Contributors

Ayesh Perera