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Lighting the wick in the candle of learning: generating a prediction stimulates curiosity

Curiosity stimulates learning. We tested whether curiosity itself can be stimulated—not by extrinsic rewards but by an intrinsic desire to know whether a prediction holds true. Participants performed a numerical-facts learning task in which they had to generate either a prediction or an example befo...

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Autores principales: Brod, Garvin, Breitwieser, Jasmin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6803639/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31646002
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41539-019-0056-y