The notion of salience has been singled out as the explanatory factor for a diverse range of linguistic phenomena. In particular, perceptual salience (e.g., visual salience of objects in the world, acoustic prominence of linguistic sounds) and semantic-pragmatic salience (e.g., prominence of recently mentioned or topical referents) have been shown to influence language comprehension and product...

We describe the application of a framework for salience metrics and linguistic variability with respect to the contextually adequate choice of referring expressions and grammatical roles: Where multiple meaning-equivalent candidate realizations are available that differ in one of these aspects, NLG systems can apply salience metrics to predict contextually adequate realization preferences. We e...

The current work sought to test the moderating role of a multicultural ideology on the relationship between categorisation salience and ingroup bias. Accordingly, in one experimental study, we manipulated categorisation salience and the accessibility of a multicultural ideology, and measured intergroup attitudes. Results show that categorisation salience only leads to ingroup bias when a multic...

We present a model based on long-range intra-cortical connections which computes the salience of contours in a visual scene. The model accounts for a number of psychophysical and physiological results on contour salience, and provides a mechanism for several of the Gestalt laws of perceptual organization. In the model, cells lying on smooth contours facilitate each other, and strongly facilitat...

In this study, we enrich a standard principal–agent model with hidden action by introducing salience-biased perception on the agent’s side. The misguided focus salient payoffs, which leads and principal’s probability assessments to diverge, has two effects: First, agent focuses too much obtaining bonus, facilitates incentive provision. Second, principal may exploit diverging relax participation...

Abstract This paper provides a simple model of identity salience that is applied to the phenomenon recent rise in right-wing populism Western world. Trade and capital flows, skill-biased technological change, migration have led declining employment wages these economies parallel economic cultural populism, tapping into nativist sentiments. We argue when long-term income stagnation for most popu...

Focusing on different treatments of the same nonfictional entity, Huntington’s disease, in two global fictions, Ian McEwan’s Saturday (2005) and Lisa Genova’s Inside O’Briens (2015), this paper seeks to understand affective, ethical, aesthetic dimensions crucial problematic moments each. It deploys concepts status (fictional, nonfictional, or a blurring two), function (how does particular eleme...