Humans and animals have the ability to continually acquire, fine-tune, and transfer
knowledge and skills throughout their lifespan. This ability, referred to as lifelong learning, is …

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

In this paper, I argue that the fields of artificial intelligence (AI) and education have been
deeply intertwined since the early days of AI. Specifically, I show that many of the early …

'Vital reading. This is the book on artificial intelligence we need right now.'Mike Krieger,
cofounder of Instagram Artificial intelligence is rapidly dominating every aspect of our …

We offer a formal treatment of choice behavior based on the premise that agents minimize
the expected free energy of future outcomes. Crucially, the negative free energy or quality of …

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

This review aims to classify and clarify, from a neuroanatomical, neurophysiological, and
psychological perspective, different memory models that are currently widespread in the …

Intelligent animals devote much time and energy to exploring and obtaining information, but
the underlying mechanisms are poorly understood. We review recent developments on this …

Successful behaviour depends on the right balance between maximising reward and
soliciting information about the world. Here, we show how different types of information-gain …

The retention of episodic-like memory is enhanced, in humans and animals, when
something novel happens shortly before or after encoding. Using an everyday memory task …