Learners use certainty to guide learning. They maintain existing beliefs when certain, but
seek further information when they feel uninformed. Here, we review developmental …

Curious information-seeking is known to be a key driver for learning, but characterizing this
important psychological phenomenon remains a challenge. In this article, we argue that …

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 …

From birth, humans constantly make decisions about what to look at and for how long. Yet,
the mechanism behind such decision‐making remains poorly understood. Here, we present …

Exploration is curiosity-driven when it relies on the intrinsic motivation to know rather than on
extrinsic rewards. Recent evidence shows that artificial agents perform better on a variety of …

Self-directed exploration in childhood appears driven by a desire to resolve uncertainties in
order to learn more about the world. However, in adult decision-making, the choice to …

What drives exploration? Understanding intrinsic motivation is a long-standing question in
both cognitive science and artificial intelligence (AI); numerous exploration objectives have …

Predictive Processing has been proposed as the single unifying computation underlying all
of cognition, and proponents argue that all psychological phenomena can be explained as …

People are remarkably capable of generating their own goals, beginning with child's play
and continuing into adulthood. Despite considerable empirical and computational work on …

Humans are driven by an intrinsic motivation to learn, but the developmental origins of
curiosity-driven exploration remain unclear. We investigated the computational principles …