Saliency and attention are concepts that have been used for a long time in different disciplines. This essay will focus on saliency and attention in the visual field. Saliency is the characteristic of such an object that attracts the subject's attention. In contrast, attention is the subject's action giving importance to an object. Neither of those takes place as an isolated behavior. Instead, our attention defines what is salient, and the salient characteristics of the object grab our attention. Across the different disciplines encompassed in this survey, it was found that even though the terms denote a similar concept, there are some points of tension and difference. For example, the description of saliency excluded from attention, or the tension between the theory of The Winner Takes it All that assumes that attention can be only allocated to one area; in contrast, Campbell assumes that there are situations where attention can be multifocal, dance would be an example of this.  However, this process does not take place as it is isolated from other senses. This survey considers cognitive allocation gathered from Philosophy, Art, Psychology, Film Studies, and Computational vision. This paper's starting point is the assumption that the subject perceives the physical world from interaction with it; this is the subject will perceive whatever, however, is capable of perceiving. Thus, attention and saliency are the starting point of the subject-object interaction since, to perceive an object, the subject must direct its cognition capabilities to it.