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| Title |
Generalizing Prototype Theory: A Formal Quantum Framework
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Frontiers in Psychology, March 2016
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| DOI | 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00418 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Diederik Aerts, Jan Broekaert, Liane Gabora, Sandro Sozzo |
| Abstract |
Theories of natural language and concepts have been unable to model the flexibility, creativity, context-dependence, and emergence, exhibited by words, concepts and their combinations. The mathematical formalism of quantum theory has instead been successful in capturing these phenomena such as graded membership, situational meaning, composition of categories, and also more complex decision making situations, which cannot be modeled in traditional probabilistic approaches. We show how a formal quantum approach to concepts and their combinations can provide a powerful extension of prototype theory. We explain how prototypes can interfere in conceptual combinations as a consequence of their contextual interactions, and provide an illustration of this using an intuitive wave-like diagram. This quantum-conceptual approach gives new life to original prototype theory, without however making it a privileged concept theory, as we explain at the end of our paper. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 8 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 38% |
| Unknown | 5 | 63% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 5 | 63% |
| Scientists | 2 | 25% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 13% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 43 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 43 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 8 | 19% |
| Researcher | 7 | 16% |
| Student > Master | 6 | 14% |
| Professor | 3 | 7% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 3 | 7% |
| Other | 9 | 21% |
| Unknown | 7 | 16% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Computer Science | 9 | 21% |
| Psychology | 8 | 19% |
| Linguistics | 4 | 9% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 3 | 7% |
| Engineering | 2 | 5% |
| Other | 7 | 16% |
| Unknown | 10 | 23% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 18. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 09 January 2024.
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#3,989
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#31,813
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#75
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