Communicated by A.V. Geramita MSC: 13D45 13Exx a b s t r a c t Let a be an ideal of a commutative Noetherian ring R and M a finitely generated R-module. We explore the behavior of the two notions f a (M), the finiteness dimension of M with respect to a, and, its dual notion q a (M), the Artinianness dimension of M with respect to a. When (R, m) is local and r := f a (M) is less than f m a (M), the m-finiteness dimension of M relative to a, we prove that H r a (M) is not Artinian, and so the filter depth of a on M does not exceed f a (M). Also, we show that if M has finite dimension and H i a (M) is Artinian for all i > t, where t is a given positive integer, then H t a (M)/aH t a (M) is Artinian. This immediately implies that if q := q a (M) > 0, then H q a (M) is not finitely generated, and so f a (M) ≤ q a (M).