Before revision:  We demonstrate that a salience signal improves classification accuracy of the specific image that was tagged with salience, as well as all images in the same class , while penalizing images in other classes. Results are validated using 5-fold validation testing on MNIST and Fashion MNIST datasets .
After revision:  We demonstrate that a salience signal improves classification accuracy of the specific image that was tagged with salience, as well as the class of images it belongs to. We also show that the computation impact of producing a salience response is minimal .