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Journal of Logic and Computation Advance Access published online on October 26, 2009
Journal of Logic and Computation, doi:10.1093/logcom/exp067
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Original Papers

Relevance Realization and the Emerging Framework in Cognitive Science

John Vervaeke

Cognitive Science Program, and Psychology Department University of Toronto, University College Toronto, ON, Canada, M5S 3H7.
E-mail: john.vervaeke{at}utoronto.ca

Timothy P. Lillicrap

Centre for Neuroscience Studies, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada K7L 3N6.
E-mail: tim{at}biomed.queensu.ca

Blake A. Richards

Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford, Mansfield Road Oxford, OX1 3QT UK.
E-mail: blake.richards{at}pharm.ox.ac.uk

Received 20 June 2008.


  Abstract

We argue that an explanation of relevance realization is a pervasive problem within cognitive science, and that it is becoming the criterion of the cognitive in terms of which a new framework for doing cognitive science is emerging. We articulate that framework and then make use of it to provide the beginnings of a theory of relevance realization that incorporates many existing insights implicit within the contributing disciplines of cognitive science. We also introduce some theoretical and potentially technical innovations motivated by the articulation of those insights. Finally, we show how the explication of the framework and development of the theory help to clear up some important incompleteness and confusions within both Montague's work and Sperber and Wilson's theory of relevance.

Keywords: relevance; constraints; self-organization; opponent processing; framework


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