The Psychology and Neuroscience of Curiosity

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1. “Two Rivers” brain map for social media marketing: Reward and information value drivers of SNS consumer engagement
   Jing Zhang, Eun‐Ju Lee · 2022 · Journal of Business Research
2. Curiosity and mesolimbic functional connectivity drive information seeking in real life
   Kathrin C. J. Eschmann, Duarte F. M. M. Pereira, Ashvanti Valji, Vera Dehmelt, Matthias J. Gruber · 2022 · Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
3. Multifaceted information-seeking motives in children
   Gaia Molinaro, Irene Cogliati Dezza, Sarah Katharina Bühler, Christina Moutsiana, Tali Sharot · 2023 · Nature Communications
4. Overlapping waves in tool use development: A curiosity-driven computational model
   Sébastien Forestier, Pierre‐Yves Oudeyer · 2016 · IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL)
5. The curious case of great ape curiosity and how it is shaped by sociality
   Sofia Forss, Erik P. Willems · 2022 · Ethology
6. Choice Boosts Curiosity
   Patricia Romero Verdugo, Lieke L. F. van Lieshout, Floris P. de Lange, Roshan Cools · 2022 · Psychological Science
7. A critique of motivation constructs to explain higher-order behavior: We should unpack the black box
   Kou Murayama, Hayley K. Jach · 2024 · Behavioral and Brain Sciences
8. People’s naïve belief about curiosity and interest: A qualitative study
   Sumeyye Aslan, Greta Marie Fastrich, Ed Donnellan, Daniel J. W. Jones, Kou Murayama · 2021 · PLoS ONE
9. Revisiting the electrophysiological correlates of valence and expectancy in reward processing – A multi-lab replication
   Katharina Paul, Douglas J. Angus, Florian Bublatzky, Raoul Dieterich, Tanja Endraß, Lisa‐Marie Greenwood, Greg Hajcak, Bradley N. Jack, Sebastian Peter Korinth, Leon O.H. Kroczek et al. · 2025 · Cortex
10. Questions in Development
    Peter Carruthers · 2020 · Cambridge University Press eBooks
11. Balancing child-centred with teacher-directed approaches to early education: Incorporating young children’s perspectives
    Nikolay E. Veraksa, Sonja Sheridan, Yeshe Colliver · 2021 · Pedagogy Culture and Society
12. People adaptively use information to improve their internal states and external outcomes
    Irene Cogliati Dezza, Christina M. Maher, Tali Sharot · 2022 · Cognition
13. Paradoxical choice and the reinforcing value of information
    Victor Ajuwon, Andrés Ojeda, Robin A. Murphy, Tiago Monteiro, Alex Kacelnik · 2022 · Animal Cognition
14. Auditory and reward structures reflect the pleasure of musical expectancies during naturalistic listening
    Benjamin P. Gold, Marcus Thomas Pearce, Anthony Randal McIntosh, Catie Chang, Alain Dagher, Robert J. Zatorre · 2023 · Frontiers in Neuroscience
15. Neurodevelopment of Attention, Learning, and Memory Systems in Infancy
    Tess Allegra Forest, Dima Amso · 2023 · Annual Review of Developmental Psychology
16. If it's important, then I am curious: A value intervention to induce curiosity.
    Rachit Dubey, Thomas L. Griffiths, Tania Lombrozo · 2019 · eScholarship (California Digital Library)
17. Dynamic Representation of the Subjective Value of Information
    Kenji Kobayashi, Sangil Lee, Alexandre L. S. Filipowicz, Kara D. McGaughey, Joseph W. Kable, Matthew R. Nassar · 2021 · Journal of Neuroscience
18. Roadmap of Designing Cognitive Metrics for Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
    Hsiao, Janet Hui-wen, Ngai, Hilary Hei Ting, Qiu, Luyu, Yang, Yi, Cao, Caleb Chen · 2021 · arXiv
19. Curiosity promotes self-regulated learning and achievement in online courses for students with varying self-efficacy levels
    Dajung Diane Shin · 2024 · Educational Psychology
20. The curious interpretation of novel object recognition tests
    Adam P. Swiercz, Mumeko C. Tsuda, Heather A. Cameron · 2025 · Trends in Neurosciences
21. Monkeys exhibit a paradoxical decrease in performance in high-stakes scenarios
    Adam L. Smoulder, Nicolas Pavlovsky, Patrick J. Marino, Alan D. Degenhart, Nicole T. McClain, Aaron P. Batista, Steven M. Chase · 2021 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
22. Exploratory preferences explain the human fascination for imaginary worlds in fictional stories
    Edgar Dubourg, Valentin Thouzeau, Charles de Dampierre, Andreï Mogoutov, Nicolas Baumard · 2023 · Scientific Reports
23. On the interplay of curiosity, confidence, and importance in knowing information
    Markus Spitzer, Janina Janz, Maohua Nie, Andrea Kiesel · 2023 · Psychological Research
24. Surfing uncertainty with screams: predictive processing, error dynamics and horror films
    Mark M. Miller, Ben P. White, Coltan Scrivner · 2023 · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
25. Architectural styles of curiosity in global Wikipedia mobile app readership
    Dale Zhou, Shubhankar P. Patankar, David M. Lydon‐Staley, Perry Zurn, Martin Gerlach, Danielle S. Bassett · 2024 · Science Advances
26. The Impact of Curiosity on Teacher–Student Relationships
    Roque do Carmo Amorim Neto, Nancy Golz, Meaghan Polega, Douglas Stewart · 2020 · Journal of Education
27. Appetite for knowledge: curiosity and children’s academic achievement
    Brenna Hassinger‐Das, Kathy Hirsh‐Pasek · 2018 · Pediatric Research
28. The neuroeconomics of epistemic curiosity
    Anastasia Buyalskaya, Colin F. Camerer · 2020 · Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences
29. Emotions and lifelong learning: synergies between neuroscience research and transformative learning theory
    Farhan Ali, Seng Chee Tan · 2022 · International Journal of Lifelong Education
30. Multimedia Interventions for Neurodiversity: Leveraging Insights from Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience to Build an Innovative Practice
    Teresa Farroni, Irene Valori, Laura Carnevali · 2022 · Brain Sciences
31. Deep Reinforcement Learning for Flipper Control of Tracked Robots in Urban Rescuing Environments
    Hainan Pan, Xieyuanli Chen, Junkai Ren, Bailiang Chen, Kaihong Huang, Hui Zhang, Huimin Lu · 2023 · Remote Sensing
32. Innovative problem solving by wild falcons
    Katie J. Harrington, Remco Folkertsma, Alice M. I. Auersperg, Laura Marina Biondi, Megan L. Lambert · 2023 · Current Biology
33. Complex behavior from intrinsic motivation to occupy future action-state path space
    Jorge Ramírez‐Ruiz, Dmytro Grytskyy, Chiara Mastrogiuseppe, Yamen Habib, Rubén Moreno‐Bote · 2024 · Nature Communications
34. Visual Attention Preference for Intermediate Predictability in Young Children
    Laura S. Cubit, Rebecca R. Canale, Rebecca Handsman, Celeste Kidd, Loisa Bennetto · 2021 · Child Development
35. Daily television exposure, parent conversation during shared television viewing and socioeconomic status: Associations with curiosity at kindergarten
    Prachi Shah, Kathy Hirsh‐Pasek, Todd B. Kashdan, Kristen Harrison, Katherine Lisa Rosenblum, Heidi M. Weeks, Priya Singh, Niko Kaciroti · 2021 · PLoS ONE
36. Accounting for expressions of curiosity and enjoyment during music listening.
    Diana Omigie, Jessica Ricci · 2022 · Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts
37. Metacognitive Computations for Information Search: Confidence in Control
    Lion Schulz, Stephen M. Fleming, Peter Dayan · 2021 · bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
38. Data Triangulation in Consumer Neuroscience: Integrating Functional Neuroimaging With Meta-Analyses, Psychometrics, and Behavioral Data
    C. Clark Cao, Martin Reimann · 2020 · Frontiers in Psychology
39. Comparing anticipation and uncertainty-penalty accounts of noninstrumental information seeking.
    Shi Xian Liew, Jake Ryan Embrey, Danielle Navarro, Ben Rhodri Newell · 2022 · Decision
40. Developing Intellectual Character: An Educational Perspective on How Uncertainty-Driven Curiosity Can Support Learning
    Jamie J. Jirout, Shoronda Erica Matthews · 2022 · Creativity theory and action in education
41. A quantitative study of non-linearity in storytelling
    Andrew Piper, Olivier Toubia · 2023 · Poetics
42. When less is more: coy display behaviours and the temporal dynamics of animal courtship
    Thomas MacGillavry, Giovanni Spezie, Leonida Fusani · 2023 · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
43. A transdisciplinary view on curiosity beyond linguistic humans: animals, infants, and artificial intelligence
    Sofia Forss, Alejandra Ciria, Fay E. Clark, Cristina‐loana Galusca, David Harrison, Saein Lee · 2024 · Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
44. Children’s subjective uncertainty-driven sampling behaviour
    Martina de Eccher, Roger Mundry, Nivedita Mani · 2024 · Royal Society Open Science
45. How does Juicy Game Feedback Motivate? Testing Curiosity, Competence, and Effectance
    Dominic Kao, Nick Ballou, Kathrin Gerling, Heiko Breitsohl, Sebastian Deterding · 2024 · CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
46. Predicting the Temporal and Social Dynamics of Curiosity in Small Group Learning
    Bhargavi Paranjape, Zhen Bai, Justine Cassell · 2018 · Lecture notes in computer science
47. How anxiety predicts interpersonal curiosity during the COVID-19 pandemic: The mediation effect of interpersonal distancing and autistic tendency
    Qi Huang, Siqi Cao, Shengkang Zhou, Diksha Punia, Xiangru Zhu, Yuejia Luo, Haiyan Wu · 2021 · Personality and Individual Differences
48. Distinct motivations to seek out information in healthy individuals and problem gamblers
    Irene Cogliati Dezza, Xavier Noël, Axel Cleeremans, Angela J. Yu · 2021 · Translational Psychiatry
49. Generated questions learning model (GQLM): Beyond learning styles
    Horace T. Crogman, Maryam Trebeau Crogman · 2016 · Cogent Education
50. Emotion-related brain structures associated with trait creativity in middle children
    Yunman Xia, Kaixiang Zhuang, Jiangzhou Sun, Qunlin Chen, Dongtao Wei, Wenjing Yang, Jiang Qiu · 2017 · Neuroscience Letters
51. The Relationship Between Children’s Indoor Loose Parts Play and Cognitive Development: A Systematic Review
    Özlem Çankaya, Mackenzie Martin, Dana Haugen · 2025 · Journal of Intelligence
52. Curiosity-driven learning in adults with and without dyslexia
    Bethany Garvin, Saloni Krishnan · 2021 · Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
53. Understanding sensory regulation in typical and atypical development: The case of sensory seeking
    Elena Serena Piccardi, Teodora Gliga · 2022 · Developmental Review
54. Using curiosity to counter health information avoidance
    Samantha Horn, Yana Litovsky, George F. Loewenstein · 2023 · Social Science & Medicine
55. Cultivating curiosity: Consumer responses to ethical and product benefits in cultured foods
    Luis Arango, Denise Maria Conroy, Amy Errmann, Felix Septianto · 2024 · Appetite
56. Neural Representations of Sensory Uncertainty and Confidence Are Associated with Perceptual Curiosity
    Michael Cohanpour, Mariam Aly, Jacqueline P. Gottlieb · 2024 · Journal of Neuroscience
57. Digital Interactive Quantitative Curiosity Assessment Tool: Questions Worlds
    Noam Tor, Goren Gordon · 2020 · International Journal of Information and Education Technology
58. The Motivational Processes of Sense-Making
    Zachary Wojtowicz, Nick Chater A, George F. Loewenstein · 2021 · Cambridge University Press eBooks
59. Party ambiguity and individual preferences
    Danielle Martin · 2018 · Electoral Studies
60. Reward uncertainty asymmetrically affects information transmission within the monkey fronto-parietal network
    Bahareh Taghizadeh, Nicholas C. Foley, Saeed Karimimehr, Michael Cohanpour, Mulugeta Semework, Sameer Anil Sheth, Reza Lashgari, Jacqueline P. Gottlieb · 2020 · Communications Biology
61. The value of what’s to come: neural mechanisms coupling prediction error and reward anticipation
    Kiyohito Iigaya, Tobias U. Hauser, Zeb L. Kurth-Nelson, John P. O’Doherty, Peter Dayan, Raymond J. Dolan · 2019 · bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
62. Intrinsically Motivated Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning: a Short Survey
    Cédric Colas, Tristan Karch, Olivier Sigaud, Pierre‐Yves Oudeyer · 2021 · HAL
63. An Approach to Elicit Human-Understandable Robot Expressions to Support Human-Robot Interaction
    Jan Leusmann, Steeven Villa, Thomas Liang, Chao Wang, Albrecht Schmidt, Sven Mayer · 2025 · CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
64. Minimally counterintuitive stimuli trigger greater curiosity than merely improbable stimuli
    Casey Lewry, Sera Gorucu, Emily G. Liquin, Tania Lombrozo · 2022 · Cognition
65. Exploring individual differences in infants’ looking preferences for impossible events: The Early Multidimensional Curiosity Scale
    Nayen Lee, Vanessa Lazaro, Jinjing Jenny Wang, Hilal H. Şen, Kelsey Lucca · 2023 · Frontiers in Psychology
66. Decoding reward–curiosity conflict in decision-making from irrational behaviors
    Yuki Konaka, Honda Naoki · 2023 · Nature Computational Science
67. Curiosity as filling, compressing, and reconfiguring knowledge networks
    Shubhankar P. Patankar, Dale Zhou, Christopher W. Lynn, Jason Z. Kim, Mathieu Ouellet, Harang Ju, Perry Zurn, David M. Lydon‐Staley, Dani S. Bassett · 2023 · Collective Intelligence
68. The Curious U : Integrating Theories Linking Knowledge and Information-Seeking Behavior
    Alexandr Ten, Pierre‐Yves Oudeyer, Michiko Sakaki, Kou Murayama · 2025 · Open Mind
69. The influence of outcome delay on suboptimal choice
    Margaret A. McDevitt, Jeffrey M. Pisklak, Marcia L. Spetch, Roger M. Dunn · 2018 · Behavioural Processes
70. Enhancing Recommender Systems With a Stimulus-Evoked Curiosity Mechanism
    Ke Xu, Junwen Mo, Yi Cai, Huaqing Min · 2019 · IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
71. The growth and form of knowledge networks by kinesthetic curiosity
    Dale Zhou, David M. Lydon‐Staley, Perry Zurn, Danielle S. Bassett · 2020 · Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences
72. A Trait-Based Network Perspective on the Validation of the French Short Boredom Proneness Scale
    Corinna Martarelli, Ambroise Baillifard, Catherine Audrin · 2022 · European Journal of Psychological Assessment
73. People are curious about immoral and morally ambiguous others
    Jordan Wylie, Ana P. Gantman · 2023 · Scientific Reports
74. The Process of Active Word Learning
    Sofia R. Jimenez, Yuyue Sun, Megan M. Saylor · 2018 · Springer eBooks
75. World Discovery Models
    Mohammad Gheshlaghi Azar, Bilal Piot, Bernardo Ávila Pires, Jean-Bastien Grill, Florent Altché, Rémi Munos · 2019 · arXiv (Cornell University)
76. Exploring the predictiveness of curiosity and interest in science learning in and after class
    Ji-Hoon Kang, Jina Kim · 2023 · Journal of Research in Science Teaching
77. A model of time-varying music engagement
    Diana Omigie, Iris Mencke · 2023 · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
78. Comparative Cognition Needs Big Team Science: How Large-Scale Collaborations Will Unlock the Future of the Field
    Nicolás Alessandroni, Drew Altschul, Marina Bazhydai, Krista Byers‐Heinlein, Mahmoud Medhat Elsherif, Biljana Gjoneska, Ludwig Huber, Valeria Mazza, Rachael Miller, Christian Nawroth et al. · 2024 · Comparative Cognition & Behavior Reviews
79. Same same but different
    Wanja Wolff, Vanessa C. Radtke, Corinna Martarelli · 2024 · Routledge eBooks
80. Effects of environmental diversity on exploration and learning: The case of bilingualism.
    Leher Singh, Rachel Barr, Paul C. Quinn, Marina Kalashnikova, Joscelin Rocha‐Hidalgo, Kate Freda, Dean D’Souza · 2024 · Journal of Experimental Psychology General
81. Distractibility and Impulsivity in ADHD as an Evolutionary Mismatch of High Trait Curiosity
    Anne‐Laure Le Cunff · 2024 · Evolutionary Psychological Science
82. To know or not to know? Curiosity and the value of prospective information in animals
    Victor Ajuwon, Tiago Monteiro, Alexandra K. Schnell, Nicola Susan Clayton · 2024 · Learning & Behavior
83. Novelty as a drive of human exploration in complex stochastic environments
    Alireza Modirshanechi, Wei-Hsiang Lin, Xu He, Michael H. Herzog, Wulfram Gerstner B · 2025 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
84. Human Perceptions of a Curious Robot that Performs Off-Task Actions
    Nick Walker, Kevin Weatherwax, Julian Allchin, Leila A. Takayama, Maya Çakmak · 2020 · ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)
85. Setting the space for deliberation in decision-making
    Danilo Vasconcellos Vargas, Johan Lauwereyns · 2021 · Cognitive Neurodynamics
86. Does openness/intellect predict sensitivity to the reward value of information?
    Luke David Smillie, Daniel Bennett, Nicholas Poh‐Jie Tan, Kiran Sutcliffe, Kirill Fayn, Stefan Bode, Jan Wacker · 2021 · Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience
87. Macaques preferentially attend to intermediately surprising information
    Shengyi Wu, Tommy C. Blanchard, Emily X. Meschke, Richard Ν. Aslin, Benjamin Y. Hayden, Celeste Kidd · 2022 · Biology Letters
88. Curiosity Emerging From the Perception of Change in Music
    Diana Omigie, Jessica Ricci · 2021 · Empirical Studies of the Arts
89. Curiosity in Online Video Concept Learning and Short-Term Outcomes in Blended Medical Education
    Cheng‐Maw Ho, Chi‐Chuan Yeh, Jann‐Yuan Wang, Rey‐Heng Hu, Po‐Huang Lee · 2021 · Frontiers in Medicine
90. The Value of Genetic Ties as Ethical Justification for Banning Gamete Donor Anonymity
    Olivia Schuman · 2020 · YorkSpace (York University)
91. Active inference goes to school: the importance of active learning in the age of large language models
    Di Paolo, Laura Desirèe, White, Ben, Guénin-Carlut, Avel, Constant, Axel, Clark, Andy · 2024 · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
92. The Brain Circuits and Dynamics of Curiosity-Driven Behavior in Naturally Curious Marmosets
    Xiaoguang Tian, Afonso C. Silva, Cirong Liu · 2021 · Cerebral Cortex
93. Killing the cats or satisfying the human? The role of epistemic curiosity in adolescents’ multidimensional well-being
    Tian Li, Haoyan Huang, Jia Liu B, Xin Tang · 2023 · Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology
94. Wanting information: Uncertainty and its reduction through search engagement
    Frans van der Sluis · 2024 · Information Processing & Management
95. Boredom and curiosity: the hunger and the appetite for information
    Johannes P.-H. Seiler, Ohad Dan · 2024 · Frontiers in Psychology
96. From Following to Understanding: Investigating the Role of Reflective Prompts in AR-Guided Tasks to Promote User Understanding
    Nandi Zhang, Yukang Yan, Ryo Suzuki · 2025 · CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
97. What kinds of questions do students ask while exploring data visualizations?
    Kim Anne Kastens, Melissa Zrada, Margie Turrin · 2019 · Journal of Geoscience Education
98. A Review of the Relationship between Novelty, Intrinsic Motivation and Reinforcement Learning
    Nazmul Haque Siddique, Paresh Dhakan, Iñaki Rañó, Kathryn Elizabeth Merrick · 2017 · Paladyn Journal of Behavioral Robotics
99. Curiosity and Its Implications for Consumer Behavior
    Christopher K. Hsee, Bowen Ruan · 2020 · Emerald Group Publishing Limited eBooks
100. Building human-like communicative intelligence: A grounded perspective
     Marina Dubova · 2021 · Cognitive Systems Research