Quantum structure of negation and conjunction in human thought

D Aerts, S Sozzo, T Veloz - Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 - frontiersin.org
We analyze in this paper the data collected in a set of experiments investigating how people
combine natural concepts. We study the mutual influence of conceptual conjunction and …

Modeling human decision-making: An overview of the Brussels quantum approach

D Aerts, M Sassoli de Bianchi, S Sozzo, T Veloz - Foundations of Science, 2021 - Springer
We present the fundamentals of the quantum theoretical approach we have developed in
the last decade to model cognitive phenomena that resisted modeling by means of classical …

Are words the quanta of human language? Extending the domain of quantum cognition

D Aerts, L Beltran - Entropy, 2021 - mdpi.com
In previous research, we showed that 'texts that tell a story'exhibit a statistical structure that is
not Maxwell–Boltzmann but Bose–Einstein. Our explanation is that this is due to the …

Generalizing prototype theory: A formal quantum framework

D Aerts, J Broekaert, L Gabora, S Sozzo - Frontiers in psychology, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Theories of natural language and concepts have been unable to model the flexibility,
creativity, context-dependence, and emergence, exhibited by words, concepts and their …

New fundamental evidence of non-classical structure in the combination of natural concepts

D Aerts, S Sozzo, T Veloz - Philosophical Transactions of …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
We recently performed cognitive experiments on conjunctions and negations of two
concepts with the aim of investigating the combination problem of concepts. Our …

Statistical and subjective interpretations of probability in quantum-like models of cognition and decision making

E Haven, A Khrennikov - Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 2016 - Elsevier
The paper starts with an introduction to the basic mathematical model of classical probability
(CP), ie the Kolmogorov (1933) measure-theoretic model. Its two basic interpretations are …

Quantum structure in cognition: Human language as a boson gas of entangled words

D Aerts, L Beltran - Foundations of Science, 2020 - Springer
We model a piece of text of human language telling a story by means of the quantum
structure describing a Bose gas in a state close to a Bose–Einstein condensate near …

Spin and wind directions I: Identifying entanglement in nature and cognition

D Aerts, JA Arguëlles, L Beltran, S Geriente… - Foundations of …, 2018 - Springer
We present a cognitive psychology experiment where participants were asked to select pairs
of spatial directions that they considered to be the best example of Two different wind …

A proposal to extend expected utility in a quantum probabilistic framework

D Aerts, E Haven, S Sozzo - Economic Theory, 2018 - Springer
Expected utility theory (EUT) is widely used in economic theory. However, its subjective
probability formulation, first elaborated by Savage, is linked to Ellsberg-like paradoxes and …

Instability of political preferences and the role of mass media: a dynamical representation in a quantum framework

P Khrennikova, E Haven - Philosophical Transactions of …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
We search to devise a new paradigm borrowed from concepts and mathematical tools of
quantum physics, to model the decision-making process of the US electorate. The statistical …