What Are We Curious about?

Franziska Brändle; Charley M Wu; Eric Schulz

doi:10.1016/j.tics.2020.05.010

What Are We Curious about?

Trends Cogn Sci. 2020 Sep;24(9):685-687. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2020.05.010. Epub 2020 Jul 1.

Authors

Franziska Brändle¹, Charley M Wu², Eric Schulz³

Affiliations

¹ Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany.
² Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA.
³ Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany. Electronic address: eric.schulz@tuebingen.mpg.de.

PMID: 32622725
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2020.05.010

Abstract

What are we curious about? Dubey and Griffiths propose a rational theory of curiosity that unifies previously contradictory novelty-based and complexity accounts. It also paves the way for future investigations, such as studying approximate models of curiosity as well as what causes abnormal levels of exploration.

Keywords: Curiosity; Exploration; Novelty; Reinforcement learning.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
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MeSH terms

Exploratory Behavior*
Humans