Notions of surprise and novelty have been used in various experimental and theoretical
studies across multiple brain areas and species. However,'surprise'and 'novelty'refer to …

What drives our curiosity remains an elusive and hotly debated issue, with multiple
hypotheses proposed but a cohesive account yet to be established. This review discusses …

Curiosity drives humans and animals to explore their environment and acquire knowledge
33 about what appears to be new, puzzling, or strange (Berlyne, 1966; Gottlieb and …

Novelty signals in the brain modulate learning and drive exploratory behaviors in humans
and animals. Inherently, whether a stimulus is novel or not depends on existing …

Reinforcement learning is a powerful model of animal learning in brief, controlled
experimental conditions, but does not readily explain the development of behavior over an …

Human babies have a natural desire to interact with new toys and objects, through which
they learn how the world around them works, eg, that glass shatters when dropped, but a …

Curiosity refers to the intrinsic desire of humans and animals to explore the unknown, even
when there is no apparent reason to do so. Thus far, no single, widely accepted definition or …

Reinforcement learning is a powerful model of animal learning in brief, controlled
experimental conditions, but does not readily explain the development of behavior over an …