Mental states follow quantum mechanics during perception and cognition of ambiguous figures

TL;DR

This study investigates whether human perception and cognition of ambiguous figures exhibit quantum interference effects, finding evidence that mental states during these processes follow quantum mechanical principles.

Contribution

The paper provides experimental evidence that mental states during perception of ambiguous figures display quantum interference, suggesting a quantum mechanical framework for cognition.

Findings

Quantum interference effects observed in perception tasks

Mental states during ambiguous figure recognition follow quantum mechanics

Experimental validation with 256 subjects

Abstract

Processes undergoing quantum mechanics, exhibit quantum interference effects. In this case quantum probabilities result to be different from classical probabilities because they contain an additional main point that in fact is called the quantum interference term. We use ambiguous figures to analyse if during perception cognition of human subjects we have violation of the classical probability field and quantum interference. The experiments, conducted on a group of 256 subjects, evidence that we have such quantum effect. Therefore, mental states, during perception cognition of ambiguous figures, follow quantum mechanics