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Quantum cognition goes beyond-quantum: modeling the collective participant in psychological measurements

Neurons and Cognition 2019-02-08 v1 Artificial Intelligence Quantum Physics

Abstract

In psychological measurements, two levels should be distinguished: the 'individual level', relative to the different participants in a given cognitive situation, and the 'collective level', relative to the overall statistics of their outcomes, which we propose to associate with a notion of 'collective participant'. When the distinction between these two levels is properly formalized, it reveals why the modeling of the collective participant generally requires beyond-quantum - non-Bornian - probabilistic models, when sequential measurements at the individual level are considered, and this though a pure quantum description remains valid for single measurement situations.

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@article{arxiv.1802.10448,
  title  = {Quantum cognition goes beyond-quantum: modeling the collective participant in psychological measurements},
  author = {Diederik Aerts and Massimiliano Sassoli de Bianchi and Sandro Sozzo and Tomas Veloz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.10448},
  year   = {2019}
}

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19 pages, 1 figure