Decision Making and Modelling in Cognitive Science

✍ Scribed by Sisir Roy (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer India
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 174
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book discusses the paradigm of quantum ontology as an appropriate model for measuring cognitive processes. It clearly shows the inadequacy of the application of classical probability theory in modelling the human cognitive domain. The chapters investigate the context dependence and neuronal basis of cognition in a coherent manner. According to this framework, epistemological issues related to decision making and state of mind are seen to be similar to issues related to equanimity and neutral mind, as discussed in Buddhist perspective. The author states that quantum ontology as a modelling tool will help scientists create new methodologies of modelling in other streams of science as well.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction....Pages 1-21
Various Approaches to Decision Making....Pages 23-49
Predictability of Brain and Decision Making....Pages 51-73
New Empirical Evidences on Decision Making and Cognition....Pages 75-99
Fundamental Concepts of Mathematics and Quantum Formalism....Pages 101-116
The Complementary Principle, Concept of Filter and Cognition Process....Pages 117-130
Quantum Probability Theory and Non-Boolean Logic....Pages 131-140
Quantum Ontology and Context Dependence....Pages 141-152
Modern Neuroscience and Quantum Logic....Pages 153-158
Future Directions of Modelling the Uncertainty in the Cognitive Domain....Pages 159-165

✦ Subjects

Psychometrics;Methodology of the Social Sciences;Quantum Physics;Operation Research/Decision Theory