2nd cohort - Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

Second Cohort PhDs

The first cohort joined the RTG in August 2026. We are looking forward to the exiting new projects, including our upcoming Theory Kick-off!

Project B2: Social and fitness benefits of curiosity in nonhuman primates

Project C3: The mechanistics of local-learning rules for curiosity in neural network models

Project A2: Active acquisition of ecological and social information in wild macaques

Project B1: How does curiosity modulate the integration of sampled external information into internal models of the world?

Project A3: Predictors of curiosity in Guinea baboons

Project C5: Information theoretic models of curiosity in hierarchichal models of the world

Project A1: Developmental interplay of curiosity, meta-cognition and social learning

Project B4: Is there a curiosity boost in early category learning?

Project C2: Curious visual representation learning in children and machines

Project B3: Curiosity-driven learning in children’s reading behaviour and knowledge acquisition

Project A4: To know or not to know – emotional, motivational and person-related factors of seeking or avoiding information

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