Towards a neuroscience of active sampling and curiosity

J Gottlieb, PY Oudeyer - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2018 - nature.com
In natural behaviour, animals actively interrogate their environments using endogenously
generated 'question-and-answer'strategies. However, in laboratory settings participants …

Exploration versus exploitation in space, mind, and society

TT Hills, PM Todd, D Lazer, AD Redish… - Trends in cognitive …, 2015 - cell.com
Search is a ubiquitous property of life. Although diverse domains have worked on search
problems largely in isolation, recent trends across disciplines indicate that the formal …

Education in the digital age: Learning experience in virtual and mixed realities

D Allcoat, T Hatchard, F Azmat… - Journal of …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
In recent years Virtual Reality has been revitalized, having gained and lost popularity
between the 1960s and 1990s, and is now widely used for entertainment purposes …

Active inference, curiosity and insight

KJ Friston, M Lin, CD Frith, G Pezzulo, JA Hobson… - Neural …, 2017 - direct.mit.edu
This article offers a formal account of curiosity and insight in terms of active (Bayesian)
inference. It deals with the dual problem of inferring states of the world and learning its …

Towards a rational constructivist theory of cognitive development.

F Xu - Psychological review, 2019 - psycnet.apa.org
This article provides a synthesis and overview of a theory of cognitive development, rational
constructivism. The basic tenets of this view are as follows:(a) Initial state: Human infants …

Passive learning of active causal strategies in agents and language models

A Lampinen, S Chan, I Dasgupta… - Advances in Neural …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
What can be learned about causality and experimentation from passive data? This question
is salient given recent successes of passively-trained language models in interactive …

Enhanced memory as a common effect of active learning

DB Markant, A Ruggeri, TM Gureckis… - Mind, Brain, and …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Despite widespread consensus among educators that active learning leads to better
outcomes than comparatively passive forms of instruction, it is often unclear why these …

Learning from other minds: An optimistic critique of reinforcement learning models of social learning

N Vélez, H Gweon - Current opinion in behavioral sciences, 2021 - Elsevier
Highlights•RL models have been applied to study the neural underpinnings of social
learning.•Past work has largely found neural correlates of observable, reward-predictive …

Theoretical perspectives on active sensing

SCH Yang, DM Wolpert, M Lengyel - Current opinion in behavioral sciences, 2016 - Elsevier
A key component of interacting with the world is how to direct ones' sensors so as to extract
task-relevant information—a process referred to as active sensing. In this review, we present …

Asking the right questions about the psychology of human inquiry: Nine open challenges

A Coenen, JD Nelson, TM Gureckis - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2019 - Springer
The ability to act on the world with the goal of gaining information is core to human
adaptability and intelligence. Perhaps the most successful and influential account of such …