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. 2015 Oct 21:6:1583.
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01583. eCollection 2015.

Quantum information, cognition, and music

Maria L Dalla Chiara  1 , Roberto Giuntini  2 , Roberto Leporini  3 , Eleonora Negri  4 , Giuseppe Sergioli  2
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Quantum information, cognition, and music

Maria L Dalla Chiara et al. Front Psychol. .

Abstract

Parallelism represents an essential aspect of human mind/brain activities. One can recognize some common features between psychological parallelism and the characteristic parallel structures that arise in quantum theory and in quantum computation. The article is devoted to a discussion of the following questions: a comparison between classical probabilistic Turing machines and quantum Turing machines.possible applications of the quantum computational semantics to cognitive problems.parallelism in music.

Keywords: Turing machines; music cognition; quantum computation; quantum information; semantics.

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The graph of PM.
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The Mach–Zehnder interferometer.
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The quantum skier.
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A word-graph for a “classical probabilistic Mach–Zehnder state machine”.
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The quartet-theme.
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The Duke.
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Maddalena.
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Gilda.
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The Marschallin.
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