Interdisciplinary Approach to Cognitive Modelling

<p><em>An Interdisciplinary Approach to Cognitive Modelling</em> presents a new approach to cognition that challenges long-held views. It systematically develops a broad-based framework to model cognition which is mathematically equivalent to the emerging ‘quantum-like modelling’ of the human mind. </p><p>The book argues that a satisfactory physical and philosophical basis of such an approach is missing a particular issue being the application of quantization to the mind for which there is no empirical evidence as yet. In response to this issue the book adopts a COM (classical optical modelling) approach broad-based but mathematically equivalent to quantum-like modelling while avoiding its problematic features. It presents a philosophically informed and empirically motivated mathematical model of cognition mainly concerning decision-making processes. It also deals with applications to different areas of the social sciences. </p><p>It will be of interest to scholars and research students interested in the mathematical modelling of cognition and decision-making and also interdisciplinary researchers interested in broader issues of cognition.</p>