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    "pk": 29397,
    "title": "Quantifying Curiosity: A Formal Approach to Dissociating Causes of Curiosity",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Curiosity motivates exploration and is beneficial for learning,but curiosity is not always experienced when facing theunknown. In the present research, we address this selectivity:what causes curiosity to be experienced under somecircumstances but not others? Using a Bayesian reinforcementlearning model, we disentangle four possible influences oncuriosity that have typically been confounded in previousresearch: surprise, local uncertainty/expected informationgain, global uncertainty, and global expected informationgain. In two experiments, we find that backward-lookinginfluences (concerning beliefs based on prior experience) andforward-looking influences (concerning expectations aboutfuture learning) independently predict reported curiosity, andthat forward-looking influences explain the most variance.These findings begin to disentangle the complexenvironmental features that drive curiosity.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
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        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "curiosity; learning; surprise; uncertainty;expected information gain"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Facets of Cognition",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2vx4g96n",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Emily",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Liquin",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Princeton University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Frederick",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Callaway",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Princeton University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Tania",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Lombrozo",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Princeton University",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2020-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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