First Time Demonstration of the Quantum Interference Effect during Integration of Cognition and Emotion in Children

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 the quantum 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.

Quantum Unconscious Pre-Space: A Psychoanalytic/Neuroscientific Analysis of the Cognitive Science of Elio Conte–The Hard Problem of Consciousness, New Approaches and Directions

“…Quantum processes derive, and are sometimes isomorphically evidenced in macroreality (Tamulis et al, 2015, p.2;Cai et al, 2010;Pauls et al, 2013;Conte 2010;MarciakKozlowska and Kozlowski, 2015;Conte and Lucas, 2015). Isomorphisms, and/or self-similar structural dynamism across scales are evident.…”

A Brief Comment on Some Recent Evaluations by Basieva and Khrennikov, Wang et al., Boyer-Kassem et al., on Order Effects in Quantum Cognition

“…The previously mentioned theoretical and experimental results (Conte, 2015;2015a) and a recent study (Conte, 2015b) evidence that quantum cognition should not be intended as an empirical tentative that uses quantum theory as guidelines in an empirical cognitive modelling since it seems to give better results respect to classical ones. Quantum cognition is a solid structure having robust foundations holding in quantum mechanics from one hand and in psychology and neurology from the other hand (Conte, 2015;2015a;2015b).Returning to the basic question posed from these authors , we have to summarize that in quantum cognition experiments, we have posed to a group of subjects a task relating a dichotomic variable A, admitting thus only possible answers or A=+1 or A =-1. To another group we have…”

“…To summarize: we have performed a number of experiments and the aim has been to identify the possible role of quantum mechanics in human perception and cognition during presentation of ambiguous figures, during Stroop effect, in cognitive anomalies as conjunction fallacy, in priming, and recently also we considered a study on integration of emotion and cognition in children (Conte, 2015a). The previously mentioned theoretical and experimental results (Conte, 2015;2015a) and a recent study (Conte, 2015b) evidence that quantum cognition should not be intended as an empirical tentative that uses quantum theory as guidelines in an empirical cognitive modelling since it seems to give better results respect to classical ones.…”

“…The states of our consciousness may be represented by a wave function and thus respond to all the requirements that have been fixed in quantum mechanics by this abstract entity (Conte, 2015;2015a;2015b). In this manner, we consider the wave function psi, the state  , (the state of the mental entities), and cognition, logic statements…”

Verification of the Validity of the NPT Treatment in Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia: An Investigation Performed by Application of Random Matrix Theory

“…In particular we have found an ubiquitious presence of quantum mechanics and of its rules involving in particular the large class of cognitive and perceptive systems in humans and thus our mental and brain dynamics that of course represents the counterpart of the brain muscular activity that we consider in the presnet paper. In order to give a detailed information, we give here a very long list of the studies that we have conducted in this field [13]- [43].…”