{"pk":49648,"title":"A Quantum Model of Arousal and Yerkes Dodson Law","subtitle":null,"abstract":"We present the Oscillating Field Perturbation (OFP) model, a quantum model that provides a quantitative account of the Yerkes-Dodson law concerning the relationship between arousal and performance. Inspired by neural models, OFP conceptualizes cognitive control as an oscillating field that perturbs a quantum system, and represents arousal as the ``gain'' induced by this field. By integrating OFP with the Multiple Particle Multiple Well (MPMW) framework, we demonstrate that OFP successfully explains how the shape of the Yerkes-Dodson law varies with task difficulty and familiarity, consistent with empirical findings. To the best of the authors' knowledge, OFP is the first model to provide a unified account of the empirical variations in the shape of the Yerkes-Dodson law.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Cognitive Neuroscience; Psychology; Computational Modeling; Mathematical modeling"}],"section":"Papers with Poster Presentation","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1j01k2cx","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Jiaqi","middle_name":"","last_name":"Huang","name_suffix":"","institution":"Indiana University","department":""},{"first_name":"Jonathan","middle_name":"","last_name":"Cohen","name_suffix":"","institution":"Princeton University","department":""},{"first_name":"Jerome","middle_name":"","last_name":"Busemeyer","name_suffix":"","institution":"Indiana University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2025-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49648/galley/37610/download/"}]}