Neuronal Networks: The Salience Network
Send us a textWhat is salience? Fundamentally it is a value judgment that determines where your brain will place its limited resources. There are a lot of things that could draw our attention. The world is full of sights, sounds, smells, pressures, temperatures, stretches. Our mind is full of thoughts. Without a salience network, we wouldn’t know what matters and what doesn’t. We would just randomly scan our thoughts and the environment and hope what we are...