Its main function is to reorient attention towards salient stimuli.

When attention deployment is driven by salient stimuli, it is considered to be bottom-up, memory-free, and reactive.

Landmark agnosia is marked by the inability to recognize salient environmental stimuli such as landmarks.

Selection of attention is the ability to select to a specific task over a more salient stimulus or set of background stimuli.

This suggests their attention was drawn preferentially by the previously presented salient stimuli.

Facial emotional expressions are particularly salient stimuli for transferring important nonverbal signals to others.

Certain automatic responses that influence attention, like orienting to a highly salient stimulus, are mediated subcortically by the superior colliculi.

Because Cog's behavior responds to what humans would consider appropriate and socially salient environmental stimuli, the robot is expected to act more human.

The anterior attentional system is involved in detecting salient stimuli and preparing motor responses.

Monkeys were trained to look at a center stimulus and were then presented with two salient stimuli side by side.