title: On quantum models of the human mind.
abstract: Recent years have witnessed rapidly increasing interests in developing quantum theoretical models of human cognition. Quantum mechanisms have been taken seriously to describe how the mind reasons and decides. Papers in this special issue report the newest results in the field. Here we discuss why the two levels of commitment, treating the human brain as a quantum computer and merely adopting abstract quantum probability principles to model human cognition, should be integrated. We speculate that quantum cognition models gain greater modeling power due to a richer representation scheme.
authors.affiliation: School of Biomedical Informatics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.
authors.forename: Hongbin
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Yanlong
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Sun
mesh_terms: D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008960:Models, Psychological; D011338:Probability Theory; D011789:Quantum Theory
keywords: Cognitive modeling; Knowledge representation; Order effect; Quantum cognition; Quantum computation; Quantum probability theory