Associate Professor Miho Fuyama’s paper published in Entropy

The research paper authored by Associate Professor Miho Fuyama (RARA Associate Fellow) has been published in Entropy.

We sometimes gain consistent understanding or experiences through reading that cannot be expressed in language at times. In this paper, the process of constructing such non-verbal yet consistent understanding during reading is described as “purification,” a concept from quantum information processing, and proposed as a new hypothesis, the purification comprehension hypothesis. This is an interdisciplinary study connecting reading theory and quantum cognition.

Paper title: Comprehension as Purification in Reading
Author: Miho Fuyama
Publication journal: Entropy
Publication date: December 17, 2025
URL: https://doi.org/10.3390/e27121261