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Editorial: Quantum and quantum-like effects across neuroscience

Michael C Wiest, Daya S. Gupta

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience April 8, 2026 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2026.1838245 (opens in new tab)

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Key points The editorial states that quantum probability theory has been successfully applied for about thirty years to describe a wide range of statistical question-answering phenomena in psychology that appear irrational from a classical perspective. It also notes that the volume includes a systematic motivation for extending a quantum-like statistical framework to model behavior at the level of networks of reasoning individuals and social institutions.

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Editorial: Quantum and quantum-like effects across neuroscience, volume 1. For about thirty years now a growing literature has applied quantum probability theory to successfully describe a wide range of statistical question-answering phenomena in psychology that appear irrational from a classical perspective (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11). In the present volume, (12) presents a systematic motivation for applying a quantum-like (QL) statistical framework to model human behavior "beyond individual cognition," at the level of networks of reasoning individuals and social institutions.

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