Abstract
Quantum cognition is a scientific approach to cognitive phenomena which makes use of the mathematical formalism of quantum theory. Quantum interference effect constitutes one of this theory’s main tenets and has been repeatedly demonstrated experimentally, in the last decade, in adult subjects. In the present paper, we aim to demonstrate, for the first time, the existence of thequantum interference effect on children during an experiment involving an integration of cognition and emotion. Our positive results consolidate the presuppositions of quantum cognition, enlarging its field of application to children’s mental apparatus and evidence the important question to consider the quantum model in the current investigated question of the interaction of cognition and emotion in children at neurological and psychological levels.
Highlights
Cognition is the mental process of knowing, including aspects such as awareness, perception, reasoning, and judgment
Our historical position in physical science, as well as in psychology and neurosciences, posits matter in space and time, existing as an objective entity independent of human mental entities
On the basis of such results, we introduce the following statement, as a hypothesis to be tested experimentally: in decision-making, every time a subject is called to make a decision about a posed task and such task is marked by an intrinsic ambiguity, that is to say by inner and irreducible indetermination, the Superposition Principle of quantum mechanics holds and we must expect quantum interference
Summary
Cognition is the mental process of knowing, including aspects such as awareness, perception, reasoning, and judgment. Our historical position in physical science, as well as in psychology and neurosciences, posits matter in space and time, existing as an objective entity independent of human mental entities. Brain realizes a mental representation of the object This is a well established stimulus-response like mechanism that at a macroscopic scale may be experimentally verified each time, and we have no need to debate about it. Some Conte’s studies have been developed on the basis of a quantum model It suggests a different perspective, indicating the possibility that human cognitive dynamics arises, coexisting ab initio in strong relation with the material sphere.
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