1st cohort - Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

First cohort PhDs

The first cohort joined the RTG in August 2024.

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

Project A3: Predictors of curiosity in Guinea baboons

Project C1: Neural systems underlying curiosity-driven sampling of perceptual information

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

Project C2: Curious visual representation learning in children and machines

Project C4: Modelling curiosity constrained by planning

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

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

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

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

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

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

Omnibus project

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

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