The Drive for Knowledge

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.