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Context-Dependent and Epistemic Uses of Attention for Perceptual-Demonstrative Identification

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Modeling and Using Context (CONTEXT 2005)

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Object identification via a perceptual-demonstrative mode of presentation has been studied in cognitive science as a particularly direct and context-dependent means of identifying objects. Several recent works in cognitive science have attempted to clarify the relation between attention, demonstrative identification and context exploration. Assuming a distinction between ‘(language-based) demonstrative reference’ and ‘perceptual demonstrative identification’, this article aims at specifying the role of attention in the latter and in the linking of conceptual and non conceptual contents while exploring a spatial context. First, the analysis presents an argument to the effect that selection by overt and covert attention is needed for perceptual demonstrative identification since overt/covert selective attention is required for the situated cognitive access to the target object. Second, it describes a hypothesis that makes explicit some of the roles of attention: the hypothesis of identification by epistemic attention via the control of perceptual routines.

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  2. Central and East European Center for Cognitive Science, New Bulgarian University, 21 Montevideo Street, 1618, Sofia, Bulgaria

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  3. Computer Science Department, Indiana University, 47405, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.

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  4. Department of Computer Science, University of Maine, 04469, Orono, Maine, USA

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Bullot, N.J. (2005). Context-Dependent and Epistemic Uses of Attention for Perceptual-Demonstrative Identification. In: Dey, A., Kokinov, B., Leake, D., Turner, R. (eds) Modeling and Using Context. CONTEXT 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3554. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11508373_6

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