Curiosity reflects an individual's intrinsic motivation to seek information in order to close
information gaps. In laboratory-based experiments, both curiosity and information seeking …

Successful learning depends on various factors such as depth of processing, motivation, or
curiosity about information. A strong drive to learn something or the expectation of receiving …

The hippocampus plays a central role as a coordinate system or index of information stored
in neocortical loci. Nonetheless, it remains unclear how hippocampal processes integrate …

Cognitive maps are thought to arise, at least in part, from our intrinsic curiosity to explore
unknown places. However, it remains untested how curiosity shapes aspects of spatial …

Curiosity—the intrinsic desire to know—is a concept central to the human mind and
knowledge acquisition. Experimental studies on information-seeking have found that …

Consistent with the idea that curiosity enhances information seeking, it has been shown that
activity within both the dopaminergic circuit and hippocampus supports curiosity-enhanced …

The hippocampus is a crucial brain structure involved in memory formation, spatial
navigation, emotional regulation, and learning. An accurate MRI image segmentation of the …

Individuals differ in the way they seek information, acquire knowledge, and form memories.
Neural finger-prints of intrinsic functional connectivity distinguish between individuals and …

Videos of magic tricks offer lots of opportunities to study the human mind. They violate the
expectations of the viewer, causing prediction errors, misdirect attention, and elicit epistemic …

Heterogeneity in brain activity can give rise to heterogeneity in behavior, which in turn
comprises our distinctive characteristics as individuals. Studying the path from brain to …