0 the fact of being important to or connected with what is happening or being discussed: --
The salience of these facts was questioned by several speakers.
It is socially set and depends upon social salience.
If evolutionary analysis has any salience for law, it is likely to have important insights for family law.
The article describes how dopamine innervation of the nucleus accumbens allows organisms to recognize and remember the incentive salience of stimuli.
Future research should either keep the salience variable constant or specifically study the interaction between semantic salience and complexity.
One common view is that they increase the salience of relevant signals.
If this attempt at signalling works, it does so by means of salience (pp. 158-9).
If a referent ceases to be mentioned in the text, however, its local salience is incrementally decreased.
It is important to note that, as with frequency, the criterion of salience can apply to all three dimensions - form, meaning, and use.
