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The time-frequency uncertainty principle states that the product of the temporal and frequency extents of a signal cannot be smaller than $1/(4\pi)$. We study human ability to simultaneously judge the frequency and the timing of a sound.…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2015-03-11 Jacob N. Oppenheim , Marcelo O. Magnasco

This work reviews the human auditory system, elucidating some of the specialized mechanisms and non-linear pathways along the chain of events between physical sound and its perception. Customary relationships between frequency, time, and…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-08-01 Milind N. Kunchur

The classical uncertainty principle of harmonic analysis states that a nontrivial function and its Fourier transform cannot both be sharply localized. It plays an important role in signal processing and physics. This paper generalizes the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-02 Kit Ian Kou , Yan Yang , Cuiming Zou

Application of the uncertainty principle to conditional measurements is investigated, and found to be valid for measurements on separated sub-systems. In light of this, an apparent violation of the uncertainty principle obtained by Kim and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. J. Short

We propose the experimental test of the uncertainty principle. From sub-quantum models it follows that the uncertainty principle may be not true on short time intervals of the order of a picosecond. The positive result of this experiment…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jiri Soucek

In this paper we look at a particular realization of Popper's thought experiment with correlated quantum particles and argue that, from the point of view of a nonlinear quantum physics and contrary to the orthodox interpretation,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-16 António Cardoso

The Heisenberg time-energy relation prevents determination of an atomic transition to better than the inverse of the measurement time. The relation generally applies to frequency estimation of a near-resonant field [1-3], since information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-08 Liam P. McGuinness

In the last two decades, the field of neutrino physics has made enormous progress in measuring the strength and frequency of neutrino and antineutrino oscillations. Along the way, there have been many instances of misunderstanding which led…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-04-16 Maury C Goodman

Time-reversal symmetry breaking is a key feature of nearly all natural sounds, caused by the physics of sound production. While attention has been paid to the response of the auditory system to "natural stimuli," very few psychophysical…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2013-01-04 Jacob N. Oppenheim , Pavel Isakov , Marcelo O. Magnasco

A quantum-like description of human decision process is developed, and a heuristic argument supporting the theory as sound phenomenology is given. It is shown to be capable of quantitatively explaining the conjunction fallacy in the same…

Biological Physics · Physics 2012-09-21 Taksu Cheon , Taiki Takahashi

The human brain copes with sensory uncertainty in accordance with Bayes' rule. However, it is unknown how the brain makes predictions in the presence of parameter uncertainty. Here, we tested whether and how humans take parameter…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-07-01 Jannes Jegminat , Maya Jastrzebowska , Matt Pachai , Michael Herzog , Jean-Pascal Pfister

The aim of this paper is to establish a few uncertainty principles for the Fourier and the short-time Fourier transforms. Also, we discuss an analogue of Donoho--Stark uncertainty principle and provide some estimates for the size of the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-30 Anirudha Poria

In this paper, we mainly establish the uncertainty principle (UP) for a function and its quaternion Fractional Fourier transform (QFrFT), as well as the UP for two QFrFTs. Using the polar representation of quaternion-valued signals, we give…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Ke Cui , Haipan Shi , Xiaomin Tang

We revisit the uncertainty principle from the point of view suggested by A. Wigderson and Y. Wigderson. This approach is based on a primary uncertainty principle from which one can derive several inequalities expressing the impossibility of…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-30 Nuno Costa Dias , Franz Luef , João Nuno Prata

Previously, Bennet and Feynman asked if Heisenberg's uncertainty principle puts a limitation on a quantum computer (Quantum Mechanical Computers, Richard P. Feynman, Foundations of Physics, Vol. 16, No. 6, p597-531, 1986). Feynman's answer…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ken Loo

The systematic biases seen in people's probability judgments are typically taken as evidence that people do not reason about probability using the rules of probability theory, but instead use heuristics which sometimes yield reasonable…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2014-05-01 Fintan Costello , Paul Watts

Noise mechanisms in quantum systems can be broadly characterized as either coherent (i.e., unitary) or incoherent. For a given fixed average error rate, coherent noise mechanisms will generally lead to a larger worst-case error than…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-29 Joel J. Wallman , Christopher Granade , Robin Harper , Steven T. Flammia

The origins of consonance in human music has long been contested, and today there are three primary hypotheses: aversion to roughness, preference for harmonicity, and learned preferences from cultural exposure. While the evidence is…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-12-04 John M. McBride

AI Uncertainty Quantification (UQ) has the potential to improve human decision-making beyond AI predictions alone by providing additional probabilistic information to users. The majority of past research on AI and human decision-making has…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Laura R. Marusich , Jonathan Z. Bakdash , Yan Zhou , Murat Kantarcioglu

A sharper uncertainty inequality which exhibits a lower bound larger than that in the classical N-dimensional Heisenberg's uncertainty principle is obtained, and extended from N-dimensional Fourier transform domain to two N-dimensional…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-06-14 Zhichao Zhang
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