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

Elio Conte^1,2, Rui Freire Lucas^3,4

¹School of Advanced International Studies on Applied Theoretical and Non Linear Methodologies of Physics, Bari, Italy.
²Department of Basic Sciences, Neuroscience and Sense Organs, University Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy.
³University Hospital Centre of Vaud, Department of Psychiatry, Vaud, Switzerland.
⁴Centre for Philosophy of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal.

DOI: 10.4236/wjns.2015.52011                

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.

Keywords

Quantum Cognition, Quantum Interference Effect, Quantum Mechanics, Emotion-Cognition Interaction in Children

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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