Curiosity and the dynamics of optimal exploration

2024/02/26 by Francesco Poli, Jill X. O’Reilly, Rogier B. Mars +1 · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · Psychology · #Child and Animal Learning Development #Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics #Psychological and Educational Research Studies

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.tics.2024.02.001

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Citations

• On Information and Sufficiency
• Children’s scientific curiosity: In search of an operational definition of an elusive concept
• Whatever next? Predictive brains, situated agents, and the future of cognitive science
• Active Inference, Curiosity and Insight
• Resource-rational analysis: Understanding human cognition as the optimal use of limited computational resources
• Even if suboptimal, novelty drives human exploration
• Individual differences in processing speed and curiosity explain infant habituation and dishabituation performance

Discussions

• Poli, F., O’Reilly, J. X., Mars, R. B., & Hunnius, S. (2024). Curiosity and the dynamics of optimal exploration. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 0(0). doi.org/10.1016/j.ti... [bsky, 0 points, 0 comments]