title: Cognition in Hilbert space.
abstract: Use of quantum probability as a top-down model of cognition will be enhanced by consideration of the underlying complex-valued wave function, which allows a better account of interference effects and of the structure of learned and ad hoc question operators. Furthermore, the treatment of incompatible questions can be made more quantitative by analyzing them as non-commutative operators.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA. maclennan@utk.edu
authors.forename: Bruce James
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: MacLennan
mesh_terms: D003071:Cognition; D006801:Humans; D008960:Models, Psychological; D011338:Probability Theory; D011789:Quantum Theory