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 and extralist word association experiments. Some initial models exploring this hypothesis are discussed, and experiments capable of testing these models proposed.
Faculty of Science and Technology, Queensland University of Technology.
Peter
P
Bruza
Kirsty
K
Kitto
Douglas
D
Nelson
Cathy
C
McEvoy