Is there something quantum-like about the human mental lexicon?
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Is There Something Quantum-Like about the Human Mental Lexicon?
Following an early claim by Nelson & McEvoy (35) suggesting that word associations can display 'spooky action at a distance behaviour', a serious investigation of the potentially quantum nature of such associations is currently underway. In this paper quantum theory is proposed as a framework suitable for modelling the human mental lexicon, specifically the results obtained from both intralist ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Mathematical Psychology
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0022-2496
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmp.2009.04.004