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Information-seeking, curiosity, and attention: computational and neural mechanisms
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Summary 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 topic that have emerged from the traditionally separate fields of machine learning, eye movements in natural behavior, and studies of curiosity in psychology and neuroscience. These studies show that exploration may be guided by a family of mechanisms that range from automatic biases toward novelty or surprise, to systematic search for learning progress and information gain in curiosity-driven behavior. In addition, eye movements reflect visual information search in multiple conditions and are amenable for cellular-level investigations, suggesting that the oculomotor system is an excellent model system for understanding information sampling mechanisms.
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This review integrates machine learning, eye-movement, and curiosity research to argue that information seeking ranges from automatic novelty/surprise biases to targeted search for learning progress and information gain. It proposes the oculomotor system as a model for information sampling and highlights intrinsic rewards and uncertainty monitoring as key open questions.
Key findings
- Information seeking is defined as actions whose primary goal is to obtain information and reduce uncertainty; it can be extrinsically motivated, as when a driver glances at a traffic light, or intrinsically motivated, as in curiosity or interest.
- Task-related gaze is proactively guided by uncertainty: in visuo-manual tasks the eyes move ahead of the hand to collision or target points and wait there, and in a virtual-reality walking study subjects preferentially deployed gaze to oncoming pedestrians with a history of veering onto a collision course.
- Curiosity-like mechanisms include Lowenstein’s information gap hypothesis, illustrated by a mystery novel with 10 equally likely suspects where the reader moves from high entropy to a single culprit, and developmental robotics approaches that reward learning progress rather than absolute competence.
- Novelty, surprise, and uncertainty heuristics help discover new tasks but are inefficient in large open-ended spaces and risk trapping agents in unlearnable tasks; learning-progress systems may support efficient exploration but a quantitative neural response to learning progress has not been demonstrated empirically.
Methods
- Narrative review synthesizing three traditionally separate lines: active learning and exploration in machine learning and robotics, eye movements in natural behavior, and curiosity in psychology and neuroscience.
- No primary empirical sample or new data are reported; the paper uses conceptual and computational examples, including a POMDP traffic-light example, the information gap mystery-novel illustration, and developmental robotics simulations/robots.
- Main analysis is conceptual integration and comparison of mechanisms across fields, not statistical meta-analysis.
Limitations
- The paper states that understanding information-seeking mechanisms is in its infancy, that a quantitative response to learning progress distinct from phasic responses to novelty, surprise, or arousal has not been demonstrated empirically, and that the learning-progress approach entails a complex meta-cognitive architecture awaiting empirical verification.
- The paper also states that it has not been empirically explored to what extent task-related informational eye movements are habitual, immutable aspects of a task versus rapidly responsive to changing epistemic conditions.
- Evident from the text: as a review, it provides no new experimental data, and many claims about intrinsic rewards and their neural implementation remain speculative; the paper itself notes the question of active exploration is vast and cannot be exhaustively covered.
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“In well-practiced tasks that involve visuo-manual coordination (such as moving an object to a target point) the eyes move ahead of the hand to critical locations such as potential collision or target points, and wait there until the hand has cleared those locations”
§ Information seeking, curiosity and attention: computational and neural mechanisms > Task-directed search for information through the prism of eye movements > Eye movements reflect active information search
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Johansson, Westling et al. 2001
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“Singh et al. (Singh, Lewis et al. 2010) have shown with computer simulations that even if the objective fitness/reward function of an organism is to survive and reproduce, it may be more efficient to evolve a control architecture that encodes an innate surrogate reward function rewarding learning per se.”
§ Information seeking, curiosity and attention: computational and neural mechanisms > Curiosity and autonomous exploration > The benefits and challenges of information seeking
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Singh, Lewis et al. 2010
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“Finally, the eye movements patterns made while acquiring a task differ greatly from those made after learning”
§ Information seeking, curiosity and attention: computational and neural mechanisms > Task-directed search for information through the prism of eye movements > Eye movements reflect active information search
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- Not checked yetcites Sailer, Flanagan et al. 2005
- Not checked yetcites Land 2006 source
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“Subjects preferentially deployed gaze to oncoming pedestrians whose trajectory was expected to be uncertain (i.e., who had a history of veering onto a collision course) relative to those who had never shown such deviations.”
§ Information seeking, curiosity and attention: computational and neural mechanisms > Task-directed search for information through the prism of eye movements > Eye movements reflect active information search
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Jovancevic-Misic and Hayhoe 2009
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“Sensory novelty, defined as a small number of stimulus exposures, is known to enhance neural responses throughout visual, frontal and temporal areas”
§ Information seeking, curiosity and attention: computational and neural mechanisms > Curiosity and autonomous exploration > Randomness, novelty, surprise and uncertainty
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Ranganath and Rainer 2003 source
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“Sensory novelty, defined as a small number of stimulus exposures, is known to enhance neural responses throughout visual, frontal and temporal areas (Ranganath and Rainer 2003) and activate reward responsive dopamine-recipient areas.”
§ Information seeking, curiosity and attention: computational and neural mechanisms > Curiosity and autonomous exploration > Randomness, novelty, surprise and uncertainty
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- Not checked yetcites Ranganath and Rainer 2003 source
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“information seeking in its many manifestations is related to the ability of an observer to estimate his or her uncertainty and to find strategies that reduce that uncertainty.”
§ Information seeking, curiosity and attention: computational and neural mechanisms > Information seeking obeys the imperative to reduce uncertainty and can be extrinsically or intrinsically motivated
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“Converging evidence suggests that, when deployed in the service of a task, eye movements may be explained by the simple imperative to sample information in order to reduce uncertainty regarding future states”
§ Information seeking, curiosity and attention: computational and neural mechanisms > Task-directed search for information through the prism of eye movements > Eye movements reflect active information search
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Tatler, Hayhoe et al. 2011 source
- Not checked yetcites Friston and Ao 2012
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“Our focus here is on evaluating recent developments related to this question from three lines of investigation that have remained largely separate – namely, studies of active learning and exploration in the machine learning and robotics fields, studies of eye movements in natural behavior, and studies of curiosity in psychology and neuroscience.”
§ Information seeking, curiosity and attention: computational and neural mechanisms > Information seeking in machine learning, psychology and neuroscience
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“These observations, together with the fact that eye movements are well investigated at the single neuron level in experimental animals and use value-based decision mechanisms”
§ Information seeking, curiosity and attention: computational and neural mechanisms > Task-directed search for information through the prism of eye movements > Eye movements reflect active information search
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“Notably, the eyes never track the hand, which relies on motor and proprioceptive guidance and, for short periods of time, follows a predictable path; instead, they are strategically deployed to acquire new information.”
§ Information seeking, curiosity and attention: computational and neural mechanisms > Task-directed search for information through the prism of eye movements > Eye movements reflect active information search
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“One salient fact that emerges regarding this question is the sheer vastness of the learning space, especially given the scarce time and energy available for learning.”
§ Information seeking, curiosity and attention: computational and neural mechanisms > Curiosity and autonomous exploration > The benefits and challenges of information seeking
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“Deciding how to explore optimally when searching for strategy is a very difficult question, and is almost intractable in the general case.”
§ Information seeking, curiosity and attention: computational and neural mechanisms > Task-directed search for information through the prism of eye movements > Information sampling while searching for a task strategy
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“A number of processes for open-ended exploration have been described in the literature, which, as we describe below, have individual strengths and weaknesses and may act in complementary fashion to accomplish these goals.”
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“Information gathering actions are a special type of intermediate step that obey the imperative to reduce uncertainty and adjudicate among competing interpretations.”
§ Information seeking, curiosity and attention: computational and neural mechanisms > Task-directed search for information through the prism of eye movements > Information sampling while executing a known task
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“This suggests that the observers monitor the uncertainty or predictability of external items and use these quantities proactively to deploy gaze”
§ Information seeking, curiosity and attention: computational and neural mechanisms > Task-directed search for information through the prism of eye movements > Eye movements reflect active information search
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“Strategies for solving a task, including those for generating informational actions, are not known in advance but must also be learnt.”
§ Information seeking, curiosity and attention: computational and neural mechanisms > Task-directed search for information through the prism of eye movements > Information sampling while searching for a task strategy
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“It is important to note that, while these processes require significant exploration, they are goal directed in the sense that they seek to maximize a separate, or extrinsic, reward”
§ Information seeking, curiosity and attention: computational and neural mechanisms > Task-directed search for information through the prism of eye movements > Information sampling while searching for a task strategy
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“Thus, the challenge of an information seeking mechanism is to learn efficiently a large repertoire of diverse skills given its limited resources, and avoid being trapped in unlearnable situations.”
§ Information seeking, curiosity and attention: computational and neural mechanisms > Curiosity and autonomous exploration > The benefits and challenges of information seeking
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“Similarly in the cognitive domain, infants must acquire a vast amount of factual knowledge, rules and social skills.”
§ Information seeking, curiosity and attention: computational and neural mechanisms > Curiosity and autonomous exploration > The benefits and challenges of information seeking
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“although using different terminology and methods, these three lines of research grapple with strikingly similar questions and propose overlapping mechanisms.”
§ Information seeking, curiosity and attention: computational and neural mechanisms > Information seeking in machine learning, psychology and neuroscience
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“The benefits of such a system arise because of the limited cognitive capacities of the agent (i.e., its inability to solve the fitness function directly) (Sorg, Lewis et al. 2010; Lehman and Stanley 2011; Sequeira, Melo et al. 2011) or because information or skills that are not immediately useful may be re-used in the future.”
§ Information seeking, curiosity and attention: computational and neural mechanisms > Curiosity and autonomous exploration > The benefits and challenges of information seeking
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Sorg, Lewis et al. 2010
- Not checked yetcites Lehman and Stanley 2011
- Not checked yetcites Sequeira, Melo et al. 2011
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“Although exploratory actions can involve physical acts, they are distinct from other motor acts in that their primary goal is not to exert force on the world, but to alter the observer’s epistemic state.”
§ Information seeking, curiosity and attention: computational and neural mechanisms > Information seeking obeys the imperative to reduce uncertainty and can be extrinsically or intrinsically motivated
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“eye movements reflect visual information search in multiple conditions and are amenable for cellular-level investigations”
§ Information seeking, curiosity and attention: computational and neural mechanisms > Abstract
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“In intrinsically motivated contexts, on the other hand, the search for information is a goal in itself – a process we would intuitively call “curiosity” or “interest”.”
§ Information seeking, curiosity and attention: computational and neural mechanisms > Information seeking obeys the imperative to reduce uncertainty and can be extrinsically or intrinsically motivated
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“The fact that animals, and particularly humans, seem avidly to seek out information without an apparent ulterior motive suggests that the brain generates intrinsic rewards that assign value to information”
§ Information seeking, curiosity and attention: computational and neural mechanisms > Information seeking obeys the imperative to reduce uncertainty and can be extrinsically or intrinsically motivated
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- The authors state this as an assumption: The brain generates intrinsic rewards related to learning or acquiring information.
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“This idea resonates with the free-energy principle, which states that the possession of a large array of skills can be useful to avoid future surprises by “anticipating a changing and itinerant world””
§ Information seeking, curiosity and attention: computational and neural mechanisms > Curiosity and autonomous exploration > The benefits and challenges of information seeking
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Friston 2010 source
- Not checked yetcites Friston, Thornton et al. 2012
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“A more complex form of “contextual novelty” (also called surprise) has been suggested to account for attentional attraction toward salient events”
§ Information seeking, curiosity and attention: computational and neural mechanisms > Curiosity and autonomous exploration > Randomness, novelty, surprise and uncertainty
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Boehnke, Berg et al. 2011
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“may be quantified using Bayesian inference as a difference between a prior and posterior world model (Itti and Baldi 2009) or as a high prediction error for high-confidence states (Oudeyer and Kaplan 2007).”
§ Information seeking, curiosity and attention: computational and neural mechanisms > Curiosity and autonomous exploration > Randomness, novelty, surprise and uncertainty
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- Not checked yetcites Itti and Baldi 2009 source
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“Just as animals seek to fill gaps in their physical resources (e.g., energy, sex or wealth) they seek to fill gaps in their knowledge by taking learning-oriented actions.”
§ Information seeking, curiosity and attention: computational and neural mechanisms > Curiosity and autonomous exploration > Information gap hypothesis of curiosity
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“In neuroscience research, the most commonly considered exploration strategies are based on random action selection or automatic biases toward novel, surprising or uncertain events.”
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“Defined in this way, curiosity can be viewed as a deprivation phenomenon that seeks to fill a need similar to other reference-point phenomena or biological drives.”
§ Information seeking, curiosity and attention: computational and neural mechanisms > Curiosity and autonomous exploration > Information gap hypothesis of curiosity
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“This brings us back again to the imperative to minimize uncertainty about the state of the world, and suggests that this imperative is similar to a biological drive.”
§ Information seeking, curiosity and attention: computational and neural mechanisms > Curiosity and autonomous exploration > Information gap hypothesis of curiosity
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“Second, to define an information gap one has to monitor one’s level of uncertainty, again similar to eye movement control.”
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“First, understanding information seeking requires that we understand how agents monitor their own competence and epistemic states, and specifically how they estimate their uncertainty and generate strategies for reducing that uncertainty.”
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“Finally, eye movements are natural indicators of the brain’s active information search.”
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“According to the information gap theory, this type of curiosity arises because of a discrepancy between what the observer knows and what he would like to know, where knowledge can be measured with traditional measures of information.”
§ Information seeking, curiosity and attention: computational and neural mechanisms > Curiosity and autonomous exploration > Information gap hypothesis of curiosity
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- Not checked yetcites Lowenstein 1994 source
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“Second, this question requires that we understand the nature of intrinsic rewards that motivate information seeking and learning.”
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“By virtue of their amenability to neurophysiological investigations, may be an excellent model system for tackling this question, especially if studied in conjunction with computational approaches and the brain’s intrinsic reward and cognitive control mechanisms.”
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“or which respond selectively for behavioral change or the beginning of exploratory episodes (Isoda and Hikosaka 2007; Quilodran, Rothe et al. 2008).”
§ Information seeking, curiosity and attention: computational and neural mechanisms > Curiosity and autonomous exploration > Exploration based on learning progress (LP)
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- Not checked yetcites Isoda and Hikosaka 2007
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The brain generates intrinsic rewards related to learning or acquiring information.
“it seems necessary to assume that the brain generates intrinsic rewards related to learning or acquiring information (Berlyne 1960).”
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Biological drives are prompted by salient and easily recognizable signs.
“while biological drives are prompted by salient and easily recognizable signs (e.g., somatic signals for hunger or sex)”
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In scientific research, the results of an experiment typically open up new questions that had not been foreseen, and it is not possible to estimate in advance the current entropy and the final desired state.
“In scientific research for example, the results of an experiment typically open up new questions that had not been foreseen, and it is not possible to estimate in advance what is the current entropy and the final, desired, state.”
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The central objective of developmental robotics is to design agents that can explore in open-ended environments and develop autonomously without a pre-programmed trajectory, based on their intrinsic interest.
“The central objective of developmental robotics is to design agents that can explore in open-ended environments and develop autonomously without a pre-programmed trajectory, based on their intrinsic interest.”
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The brain has intrinsic reward and cognitive control mechanisms.
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Eye movements are amenable to neurophysiological investigations.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Gottlieb, J., Oudeyer, P.-Y., Lopes, M., & Baranes, A.
- Affiliations
- Columbia University (US)
- Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique (FR)
- Corresponding author
- Gottlieb, Jacqueline
- Venue
- Trends in Cognitive Sciences
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2013-11
- Volume
- 17
- Issue
- 11
- Pages
- 585-593
- ISSN
- 1364-6613 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC4193662
- OpenAlex
- W2013830186
- Semantic Scholar
- 61667ccec10748b39e274f2a13fcf9b7c4a9b275
- Cited by
- 784
- References
- 132
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- FWCI
- 4.42
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Trends in Cognitive Sciences (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
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- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (4r01mh098039-05)
- National Institute of Mental Health (R01 MH-098039, R03MH091590)
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (R21DA030095)
- National Eye Institute (P30EY019007)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Psychological and Educational Research Studies
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Reinforcement Learning in Robotics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Keywords
- information seeking, curiosity, attention, exploration, novelty bias, surprise, information gain, eye movements, oculomotor system
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Artificial Intelligence, Attention, Brain, Exploratory Behavior, Humans, Information Seeking Behavior
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