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Grounding quantum probability in psychological mechanism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 May 2013

Bradley C. Love
Bradley C. Love*
Affiliation:
University College London, Cognitive, Perceptual and Brain Sciences, London WC1H 0AP, United Kingdom. b.love@ucl.ac.ukbradlove.org
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Abstract

Pothos & Busemeyer (P&B) provide a compelling case that quantum probability (QP) theory is a better match to human judgment than is classical probability (CP) theory. However, any theory (QP, CP, or other) phrased solely at the computational level runs the risk of being underconstrained. One suggestion is to ground QP accounts in mechanism, to leverage a wide range of process-level data.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 36 , Issue 3 , June 2013 , pp. 296
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013 

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References

Jones, M. & Love, B. C. (2011) Bayesian fundamentalism or enlightenment? On the explanatory status and theoretical contributions of Bayesian models of cognition. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 34:169–231.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed