9. The method as set forth in claim 8 , wherein the one or more processors perform operations of: recalling the stored schema and the reward measure when presented with a new environment; and appending a set of processing strategies onto the rank-ordered list of cognitive saliency values based on the recall of the stored schema and the reward measure, thereby generating a processed rank-ordered list of cognitive saliency values.
10. The method as set forth in claim 9 , wherein the one or more processors further perform an operation of filtering the processed rank-ordered list of cognitive saliency values, such that the objects with relatively low cognitive saliency values are filtered out from the processed rank-ordered list of cognitive saliency values, thereby generating a filtered rank-ordered list of cognitive saliency values.