Crossword clues for salience
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Salience \Sa"li*ence\, n. [See Salient.]
The quality or condition of being salient; a leaping; a springing forward; an assaulting.
The quality or state of projecting, or being projected; projection; protrusion.
--Sir W. Hamilton.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1836, "quality of leaping;" see salient (adj.) + -ence. Meaning "quality of standing out" is from 1849.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The condition of being salient. 2 A highlight; perceptual prominence, or likelihood of being noticed. 3 (context social sciences linguistics English) relative importance based on context.
WordNet
n. the state of being salient [syn: saliency, strikingness]
Wikipedia
Salience is the state or condition of being prominent. The Oxford English Dictionary defines salience as "most noticeable or important." The concept is discussed in communication, semiotics, linguistics, sociology, psychology, and political science. It has been studied with respect to interpersonal communication, persuasion, politics, and its influence on mass media.
Salience (or saliency) may refer to:
- Availability, salience and vividness, concepts in social psychology
- Incentive salience, a motivational "wanting" attribute given by the brain
- Mortality salience, a product of the terror management theory in social psychology
- Salience (language), the property of being noticeable or important
- Salience (neuroscience), the perceptual quality by which an observable thing stands out relative to its environment
- Social salience, in social psychology, a set of reasons which draw an observer's attention toward a particular object
The salience (also called saliency) of an item – be it an object, a person, a pixel, etc. – is the state or quality by which it stands out relative to its neighbors. Saliency detection is considered to be a key attentional mechanism that facilitates learning and survival by enabling organisms to focus their limited perceptual and cognitive resources on the most pertinent subset of the available sensory data.
Saliency typically arises from contrasts between items and their neighborhood, such as a red dot surrounded by white dots, a flickering message indicator of an answering machine, or a loud noise in an otherwise quiet environment. Saliency detection is often studied in the context of the visual system, but similar mechanisms operate in other sensory systems. What is salient can be influenced by training: for example, for human subjects particular letters can become salient by training.
When attention deployment is driven by salient stimuli, it is considered to be bottom-up, memory-free, and reactive. Attention can also be guided by top-down, memory-dependent, or anticipatory mechanisms, such as when looking ahead of moving objects or sideways before crossing streets. Humans and other animals have difficulty paying attention to more than one item simultaneously, so they are faced with the challenge of continuously integrating and prioritizing different bottom-up and top-down influences.
Usage examples of "salience".
The thaumaturge found that seeking to know his own salience brought on a blinding headache.
But it continued to wear on Imbry that so many of the lives he touched to the salience indicator were revealed to be of almost no consequence at all.
She was waiting in the now opulent room where the salience indicator sat, wearing an expression that Imbry could only characterize as a mean-hearted sulk.
He heard nothing of what had happened to the salience indicator, and did not inquire.
Imbry that so many of the lives he touched to the salience indicator were revealed to be of almost no consequence at all.
Or it may be that we appreciate the magnitude of an object by observing the salience and recession of its several parts, so that to perceive its true size we must have it close at hand.
She was pregnant, quite far along, and their enthusiastic hug had to accommodate itself to the salience of her belly.
This is thought to be the area of the brain that decides the salience of a stimulus: how important it is at any given point.
You would not be able to notice that the salience of food har-changed.
German frontier made it dangerous in the hands of the enemy, and also made it easier for the Germans to concentrate on its attack the masses of artillery with which they proposed to do the fighting, while its salience hampered the French lines of communication.
Attraction: The Effects of Mortality Salience on Evaluations of Charismatic, Task-Oriented, and Relationship-Oriented Leaders.
Attraction: The effects of mortality salience on evaluations of charismatic, task-oriented, and relationship-oriented leaders.
Fantastic sceneries leapt into momentary salience, taking on the definitude and perspective of actual landscapes, and then faded back amid the iridescent blur.
The blow I'd taken would have flung an unanchored victim right out to the shaft's ragged lip and left him sprawled on its dizziest salience above the webbed abyss.