Extreme CF: A Structural Account of Processing Absence and Category Absence in CF-Foregrounded Configurations

Authors

• Griselda Poe, CUNY Lehman CollegeFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Spring 4-19-2026

Abstract

Existing frameworks of cognition and intervention assume that processing occurs, meaning is available, and evaluation can be applied.

This paper describes a configuration in which this assumption does not hold.

In CF-foregrounded processing where modulation is absent, processing occurs only when coherence is satisfied. When coherence is not satisfied, processing does not occur. Under this condition, no representation is generated, no evaluation applies, and no action selection is produced.

Within single-layer cognitive models, EF and CF are not distinguished. Within such models, CF does not exist as a condition.

This configuration has not been represented as a category within existing systems. As a result, it is misclassified, and intervention is applied under conditions that are not satisfied.

This paper presents these conditions.

Comments

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19656157

The Core-Modulation Architecture (CMA): Paper 17 (q-ECF) v2