Nor does the old secular religious divide have much salience anymore.

Are UFOs alien spaceships or perceptual cognitive mistakes or even fakes?

This renders the answer perceptual rather than factual and is often a red flag.

If the humanities have become obsolete, then it may be that humanity is losing its salience.

So the ultimate human decision must be based on the relative salience of these discordant emotional factors.

Pope Francis will boost the issue s salience when he releases a major statement on it next week.

That is your perceptual reality. The physical reality is that those two tiles are the same.

But I cannot say, You think, therefore you are, because you are within my perceptual bubble.

I begin with the nature of the perceptual system What were the circumstances in which it evolved?

My friend is writing a doctoral thesis on developing visual perceptual skills in children with learning disabilities.

So the next step is just to take these brain coordinates and to project them into perceptual space.

The immediate predecessors of MP3 were Optimum Coding in the Frequency Domain (OCF), and Perceptual Transform Coding (PXFM).

A visit by Erwin Chargaff to England in 1952 reinforced the salience of this important fact for Watson and Crick.

Other researchers have gone beyond the SDIH altogether, substituting a perceptual outcome perceived visual angle for the stimulus input.

And so what we do is we compare the buildings within our perceptual bubble, and we make a decision.

Moreover, whereas Iran is a Shia country, the overwhelming majority of Arabs are Sunni, reinforcing the salience of Iran s ethnic distinctiveness.

And what that illustrates is that decisions are the key things that support our perceptual bubble. It keeps it alive.

The reason why the moon is huge on the horizon is simply because our perceptual bubble does not stretch out 380,000 kilometers.

Understanding the perceptual system in evolutionary terms makes it possible to uncover the processes that determine our awareness of objects moving in space.

A key ingredient of this simmering conflict is ethnicity, the salience of which became evident even before the election of President Evo Morales in 2005.

Again, this is not an optical trick. This is what you would see. In other words, it's not a camera cut. It's a perceptual trick.

Indeed, each successive generation of falling prices appears to produce new uses for computers and communications equipment, thus increasing demand and increasing their salience in the economy as a whole.

The patterns of charitable donation to foreign countries often have more to do with the salience of news reports than to actual considerations about where the money is most needed.

Now, how would such a perceptual system respond to the stimulus of the Moon Illusion a stimulus that changes only in the elevation of the Moon over the ground?

Or, you take this particular un retouched photograph. Now, interestingly enough, I get a lot of emails from people who say, Is there any perceptual difference between males and females?

Al Seckel, a cognitive neuroscientist, explores the perceptual illusions that fool our brains. Loads of eye tricks help him prove that not only are we easily fooled, we kind of like it.

Such questions will have increasing salience in light of the concerns about economic efficiency and cost containment that are shaping the efforts of today's shamans to read, assess, and tame the future in this, the age of biotechnology.

A key ingredient of this simmering conflict is ethnicity, the salience of which became evident even before the election of President Evo Morales in 2005. The combination of highly mobilized and vocal indigenous groups (the Amerindians, mainly located in the western highlands of Bolivia, represent some 55 of the population) and the declining influence of traditional elites at a time of socio economic deterioration, has created a society in which there are more losers than winners.