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In literary studies, it has been suggested that the indeterminacy of interpretation during narrative reading evokes a reader's aesthetic sense and immersion. This study modeled interpretive states with indeterminacy as a superposition using quantum probability theory, and conducted empirical research to explore how this superposition relates to subjective experiences, including transportation. This presentation will introduce and discuss part of these findings.
Ref: Fuyama, M. (2024). Estimating a Time Series of Interpretation Indeterminacy in Reading a Short Story. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 46, 2681-2686.
Fuyama is a cognitive scientist focusing on text comprehension, with an academic background in physics and literature. Since 2022, she has been an Associate Professor at the College of Letters, Ritsumeikan University. Currently, she is leading an interdisciplinary collaborative research to explore indeterminacy in human cognition and its effects, as a PI of one of JST-CREST Multi-Sensing projects.
