The Drive for Knowledge

ISBN-13: 9781009013048 / Miękka / 2023 / 312 str.

Opis

Paves the way towards a fully-fledged science of human information-seeking by discussing how and why people seek knowledge.

Recenzje

'Research on information seeking is rapidly emerging as a unifying force in cognitive science - one that seeks to explain how humans and animals build and refine their models of the world. By integrating mathematical models with psychology and neuroscience, this fascinating new volume provides a concise overview of the motivations and mechanisms that support information search, and highlights the pervasive role our thirst for information (and misinformation) plays in human society.' Stephen Fleming, University College London, UK

Spis treści

Preface Cogliati Dezza ,Schulz and Wu, Part I. What Drives Humans to Seek Information?: 1. The motivational processes of sense-making Zachary Wojtowicz, Nicholas Chater, George Loewenstein; 2. From curiosity to interest: Accumulated knowledge supports long-term persistence of information-seeking behavior Ed Donnellan, Michiko Sakaki, Kou Murayama; 3. Curiosity-driven exploration: diversity of mechanisms and functions Alexander Ten, Pierre-Yves Oudeyer, Clément moulin-Frier; 4. Searching for information, from infancy to adolescence Costanza De Simone and Azzurra Ruggeri; Part II. How do Humans Search for Information?: 5. What makes a good query? Prospects for a comprehensive theory of human information acquisition Björn Meder, Vincenzo Crupi, Jonathan D. Nelson; 6. Active inference, Bayesian optimal design and expected utility Noor Sajid, Lancelot Da Costa, Thomas Parr and Karl Friston; 7. Exploration beyond bandits Franziska Braendle, Marcel Binz and Eric Schulz; 8. Representational exchange in human social learning: Balancing efficiency and flexibility Charley Wu, Natalia Vélez and Fiery Cushman; Part III. Which machinery supports the drive for knowledge?: 9. Information-seeking in the brain Caroline J. Charpentier and Irene Cogliati Dezza; 10. Attention as rational choice Jacqueline Gottlieb; 11. Seeking inner knowledge: Foraging in semantic space Thomas T. Hills, Nancy B. Lundin, Mahi Luthra and Peter M. Todd; 12. Edgework: Viewing curiosity as fundamentally relational Perry Zurn, Dale Zhou, David M Lydon-Staley and Danielle S. Bassett; Future directions Cogliati Dezza, Schulz and Wu.