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salient

adj. distinctive or prominent. A salient stimulus in a multielement array will tend to be easily detected and identified. The noun form, salience (or saliency), denotes a parameter of a stimulus that indexes its effectiveness. See conspicuity; pop-out; stimulus salience.

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