{"pk":49749,"title":"Curiosity Exploration Styles in Word Association Tasks","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Recent analyses of human creativity and curiosity have identified the existence of three styles of exploration: busybody, hunter, and dancer. These styles were recognized largely by observing participants' explorations within a task, converting those observations into networks, and measuring networks' properties. But do these exploration styles still appear across different tasks? And when graph-based descriptors of an individual's exploration style are identified, how well do they transfer to similar tasks? We study inter- and intra-individual differences in two similar, but distinct, word association tasks: Chain Free Association and Semantic Fluency. We demonstrate that in some cases, graph-theoretic features do seem to capture individual semantic exploration patterns across tasks. Furthermore, our results provide evidence supporting the existence of the dancer style and its relationship to the Busybody-Hunter score. These findings highlight the potential of graph analysis as a tool for characterizing and exploring individual cognitive styles in semantic tasks.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Computer Science; Cognitive architectures; Creativity; Computational Modeling"}],"section":"Papers with Poster Presentation","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9ws069q4","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Stephen","middle_name":"","last_name":"Steinle","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of South Florida","department":""},{"first_name":"My","middle_name":"","last_name":"Duong","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of South Florida","department":""},{"first_name":"Suraj","middle_name":"","last_name":"Kumar","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of South Florida","department":""},{"first_name":"Rima","middle_name":"","last_name":"El Brouzi","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of South Florida","department":""},{"first_name":"John","middle_name":"","last_name":"Licato","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of South Florida","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2025-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49749/galley/37711/download/"}]}