A preliminary experimental verification on the possibility of Bell inequality violation in mental states

NeuroQuantology

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 214-221

  Conte, Elio ^a,b,d   Khrennikov, Andrei Yuri ^a   Todarello, Orlando ^b   De Robertis, Roberta ^b   Federici, Antonio ^b   Zbilut, Joseph P ^c  

^a LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^c RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d School of International Advanced Studies on Applied Theoretical and non Linear Method of Physics   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cognition and quantum mechanics; Neurophysiological correlates of quantum cognitive observables; Perception cognition of ambiguous figures; Quantum cognitive observables; Test of Bell inequality for mental states

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; QUANTUM MECHANICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL INFORMATION;

EID: 57049159237     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13035150     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14704/nq.2008.6.3.178     Document Type: Article

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