Salience

Salience or saliency may refer to:


 * Mortality salience, a product of the terror management theory in social psychology
 * Motivational salience, a motivational "wanting" attribute given by the brain
 * 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