楚尔指出，认知诗学的特点在于运用认知科学对特定的文学作品之所以产生某种审美效果进行科学的阐释，在形式主义批评和印象式批评之间建起一座桥梁。《走向认知诗学理论》一书，以聚合型与发散型为文体的两端，以激情和睿智作为审美的两端，从七个层面对诗歌进行研究，对崇高、荒诞等美学概念从认知科学的角度做了科学的解释。

In Reuven Tsur' Toward a Theory of Cognitive Poetics, cognitive science is used to explain why certain literary text can produce certain aesthetic effect, and hence a bridge between formal criticism and impressionist criticism is built. In Tsur's book, convergent and divergent styles are set as the two extremes of stylistics, while wit and emotion as two extremes of aesthetic effects. Tsur can then discuss poetry from seven aspects, giving fresh explanations to such aesthetic terms the sublime and the grotesque from the perspective of cognitive science．