Salience

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The term salience may refer to:

• Salience (neuroscience)
• Salience (semiotics)
• Salience (band), a rock group from Edmonton, Canada
• Salience is a term used in CLIPS (an expert systems programming language)

Other uses

• In project and general management the term ‘salience’ is used to describe the process of assessing the relative importance of the stakeholders and hence their requirements
• In communication, the word salience is used for something outstanding, a highlight. There are interpersonal salience and intergroup salience.

See also

• Salient

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