👋 Happy to see this paper published in PNAS
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2529176123
Asking: is curiosity a homeostatic drive, or a policy learned through reinforcement?
How can we tell, and why does it matter? 🧵👇
With Jane Mok, @chrisbaldassano.bsky.social, Caroline Marvin, and Daphna Shohamy 🙏
Human curiosity is dynamic, however the principles governing its fluctuations remain
debated. Here, we test two competing hypotheses about how past...
What drives human curiosity? Is it a need to balance stimulation — or something we learn over time?
In our 🚨 new preprint, we show that learning reinforces curiosity, especially for related content.
osf.io/9bw6j_v2
w/ Jane Mok, @chrisbaldassano.bsky.social , Caroline Marvin, Daphna Shohamy
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