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Reconciling Novelty and Complexity through a Rational Analysis of Curiosity

2019-09-27

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<p>Curiosity is considered to be the essence of science and an integral component of cognition. What prompts curiosity in a learner? Previous theoretical accounts of curiosity remain divided – novelty-based theories propose that new and highly uncertain stimuli pique curiosity whereas complexity-based theories propose that stimuli with an intermediate degree of uncertainty stimulate curiosity. In this article, we...

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Literature Corpus work: 2e0a1498-a1eb-5f99-b980-05d83164532b
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/wg5m6

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