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·October 2, 2014·3 min read

How Curiosity Changes the Brain to Enhance Learning

A new study could help researchers find ways to enhance overall memory and learning in both healthy people and those with neurological problems.

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·November 4, 2015·4 min read

Defining Curiosity

Researchers explore the function, mechanism, evolution and development of curiosity.

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·April 8, 2016·4 min read

Does Curiosity Lead Us To Seek Unpleasant or Painful Outcomes?

According to researchers, curiosity sometimes leads us to seek out potentially painful or unpleasant outcomes that have no apparent benefit.

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·May 23, 2019·4 min read

What we think we know, but might not, pushes us to learn more

Learning is best predicted by both curiosity and an objective measure of knowledge. Researchers suggest it is uncertainty, or when you think you know something then discover you don't, that leads to curiosity and learning outcomes.

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·June 19, 2019·5 min read

Information addiction: How information is like snacks, money, and drugs to your brain

Obtaining new information may be addictive. Study finds information acquisition shares the same dopamine producing reward system pathway as food, financial rewards and drugs.