Projektnummer

0070572

Zusammenfassung

Curiosity is one of the core mechanisms underlying children's exploration and play. It motivates us to learn, but also guides our choices of what to learn and how to learn it. In this sense, understanding how children's early experiences shape cognitive and neural systems that support curiosity is crucial for developing tools and learning environments that support children's learning, in classroom settings and beyond. Our project "Towards a science of curiosity" brings together methods and insights from developmental psychology, cognitive science, and robotics to answer these questions...