{"pk":25837,"title":"Towards an Empirical test of Realism in Cognition","subtitle":null,"abstract":"We discuss recent progress towards an empirical test of ‘realism’\nin cognition, ‘realism’ in this context being the property\nthat cognitive variables always have well defined (if unknown)\nvalues at all times. Our main result is an inequality obeyed by\nrealist theories, which could be tested by a suitable experiment.\nWe focus our attention in this contribution on two particular\nissues. The first is the exact notion of realism which is to be\ntested, as this has received less attention in earlier work. The\nsecond is an important technical issue about the inequality we\nuse; in earlier work Atmanspacher and Filk (2010) considered\na different expression, and we explain why our inequality is\nmore suitable for use under realistic experimental conditions","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"cognition; quantum probability; time perception;\nmemory."}],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/23m8f70t","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"James","middle_name":"M","last_name":"Yearsley","name_suffix":"","institution":"City University London","department":""},{"first_name":"Emmanuel","middle_name":"M","last_name":"Pothos","name_suffix":"","institution":"City University London","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2015-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/25837/galley/15461/download/"}]}