Immense amounts of information are now accessible to people, including information that
bears on their past, present and future. An important research challenge is to determine how …

Background Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a chronic, progressive disease
characterized by the aberrant accumulation of fibrotic tissue in the lungs parenchyma …

The medial frontal cortex and adjacent orbitofrontal cortex have been the focus of
investigations of decision-making, behavioral flexibility, and social behavior. We review …

In natural behaviour, animals actively interrogate their environments using endogenously
generated 'question-and-answer'strategies. However, in laboratory settings participants …

The original" Seven Motifs" set forth a roadmap of essential methods for the field of scientific
computing, where a motif is an algorithmic method that captures a pattern of computation …

Explore-exploit decisions require us to trade off the benefits of exploring unknown options to
learn more about them, with exploiting known options, for immediate reward. Such decisions …

This chapter studies the bidirectional causal interactions between curiosity and learning and
discusses how understanding these interactions can be leveraged in educational …

Individual humans form their beliefs by sampling a small subset of the available data in the
world. Once those beliefs are formed with high certainty, they can become stubborn to …

Curiosity is considered to be the essence of science and an integral component of cognition.
What prompts curiosity in a learner? Previous theoretical accounts of curiosity remain …

Curiosity plays a fundamental role for learning and memory, but the neural mechanisms that
stimulate curiosity and its effect on memory are poorly understood. Accumulating evidence …