TITLE:
First Time Demonstration of the Quantum Interference Effect during Integration of Cognition and Emotion in Children
AUTHORS:
Elio Conte, Rui Freire Lucas
KEYWORDS:
Quantum Cognition, Quantum Interference Effect, Quantum Mechanics, Emotion-Cognition Interaction in Children
JOURNAL NAME:
World Journal of Neuroscience,
Vol.5 No.2,
April
30,
2015
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.