A fundamental assumption in relevance theory is that human cognition has evolved in the direction of increased efficiency and, as such, tends, as Sperber and Wilson ( Relevance: Communication and cognition , 2nd ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 1995: 38–46, 260–66) put it in their cognitive principle , to be naturally geared towards the maximisation of relevance. The cognitive principle inter alia explains the selectivity of human agency and attention: for an input to merit the attention of the human cognitive system, it must seem relevant enough to be worth attending to. But what makes an input relevant? The relevance-theoretic account proposes that relevance for an individual organism at any specific time involves a balancing of mental effort and a particular type of worthwhile modifications, cognitive effects, that are representational in nature and amount to improvements in knowledge. The type of relevance yielded by such effects could be described as a cognitive type of relevance. However, inputs such as artistic stimuli – including literary ones – invite us to widen the scope of the causal engineering behind the selective directedness of our mental lives. Artistic stimuli merit the attention of the human cognitive system at various time-scales (momentary, developmental, and evolutionary). Following Kolaiti ( The limits of expression: Language, literature, mind . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019: 76–94) and drawing on neuroscientific evidence from the last 25 years, I will make tentative suggestions that artistic stimuli may also yield non-representational worthwhile modifications or effects. My discussion focuses on one such type of effects involving the human perceptual system: perceptual effects. Being partly or wholly embodied, perceptual effects could extend the machinery of relevance theory in an embodied direction and widen its interdisciplinary implications.

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感知相关性和艺术：一些初步建议

关联理论中的一个基本假设是，人类认知已朝着效率提高的方向发展，并因此趋向于如Sperber和Wilson（关联：沟通与认知，第二版，牛津：布莱克韦尔，1995：38-46、260） –66）将其置于他们的认知原理中，自然而然地致力于相关性的最大化。认知原理尤其解释了人类活动和注意力的选择性：为了获得值得人类认知系统关注的输入，它似乎必须足够相关以值得关注。但是，什么使输入有意义呢？关联理论理论认为，在任何特定时间与单个生物的关联都涉及精神努力与特定类型的有价值的修饰，认​​知效果，本质上具有代表性，并意味着知识的提高。由这种效应产生的相关性类型可以描述为相关性的认知类型。但是，诸如艺术刺激（包括文学刺激）之类的投入，邀请我们扩大心理生活的选择性定向背后的因果工程的范围。艺术刺激值得人类认知系统在各个时间尺度（瞬时，发展和进化）的关注。继科拉蒂（表达极限：语言，文学，思想。剑桥：剑桥大学出版社，2019：76–94）并借鉴过去25年的神经科学证据后，我将提出初步建议，即艺术刺激也可能产生非刺激性。具有代表性的有价值的修改或效果。我的讨论着重于一种涉及人类感知系统的效应：感知效应。作为部分或全部体现，知觉效应可以在相关的方向上扩展关联理论的机制，并扩大其跨学科的含义。