Etymology
Origin of salience
Explanation
Salience means importance. Your birthday will always be a date that jumps out at you with a lot of salience or importance. Salience comes from the Latin salire, meaning "to leap." Something with salience leaps out at you because it is unique or special in some way. This could be an issue — like health care reform, or a day — like 9/11, or even something someone said — like the State of the Union address. If it jumps out at you as remarkable or special, it's characterized by a quality of salience.
Vocabulary lists containing salience
Example Sentences
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The focus of the research was on the Salience Network, a collection of brain regions that work together to detect and filter important stimuli from the environment and direct attention accordingly.
From Science Daily • May 22, 2024
Meanwhile, the infants with a typical likelihood of developing ASD exhibited stronger connections between the Salience Network and prefrontal regions, which are crucial for social attention and interactions.
From Science Daily • May 22, 2024
The researchers found that the high-likelihood infants showed stronger connections between the Salience Network and sensorimotor regions of the brain, areas involved in processing sensory information and movement.
From Science Daily • May 22, 2024
This work resulted in the birth of the photonic AI company, Salience Labs, a spin-out from the University of Oxford.
From Science Daily • Oct. 19, 2023
Salience network response to changes in emotional expressions of others is heightened during early adolescence: relevance for social functioning.
From Nature • Feb. 20, 2018
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