salient event

collocation in English

meaningsofsalientandevent

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salient
adjective
uk
/ˈseɪ.li.ənt/us
/ˈseɪ.li.ənt/
The salient facts about something or qualities of something are the most important things ...
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event
noun[C]
uk
/ɪˈvent/us
/ɪˈvent/
anything that happens, especially something important ...
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(Definition ofsalientandeventfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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There was excellent congruence between the two sources of information on the age of menarche suggesting that adult women date thissalienteventreasonably well.
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Being held back in school is likely a moresalienteventin establishing this realization in older children.
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Zacks et al. (2001a) identified a network of brain regions tuned to perceptuallysalienteventboundaries under both passive viewing and active segmentation of videotapes of goal-directed everyday activities.
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Thesalientevent, according to him, is the one that attracts and holds our attention so that we cannot stop thinking about it; it presses itself upon us.
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Dopamine mediates the conversion of the neural representation of an external stimulus from a neutral bit of information into an attractive or aversive entity, i.e. asalientevent.
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When we see branches moving in a tree or when we hear an unexpected sound behind us, we immediately infer that some agent is the cause of thissalientevent.
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They see the same being true even for emotionally salient events not being incorporated.
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Dopamine mediates the conversion of the neural representation of an external stimulus from a neutral bit of information into an attractive or aversive entity, i.e. asalientevent4.
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Furthermore, attention to emotionally salient events may occur long after the event occurred, as when an individual rehearses prior emotional events.
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Even during waking life, we focus disproportionately on emotionally salient events when reporting narratives, as a quick glance at the evening news or the movie listings will attest.
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The red horse is explained as coming wars, predicted as salient events preceding the end.
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