First cohort PhDs The first cohort joined the RTG in August 2024. Leon Sebastian Behle Project A4: To know or not to know – emotional, motivational and person-related factors of seeking or avoiding information Juliette-Anne Belot Project A3: Predictors of curiosity in Guinea baboons Maren Monika Cremer Project C1: Neural systems underlying curiosity-driven sampling of perceptual information Arne Gottwald Project B1: How does curiosity modulate the integration of sampled external information into internal models of the world? Valentin Hassler Project C2: Curious visual representation learning in children and machines Julian Christopher Kerl Project C4: Modelling curiosity constrained by planning Arnout Lindeman Project B2: Social and fitness benefits of curiosity in nonhuman primates Anne-Kathrin Mahlke Project B4: Is there a curiosity boost in early category learning? Marlene M. Meyer Project A1: Developmental interplay of curiosity, meta-cognition and social learning Maik Mylius Project C5: Information theoretic models of curiosity in hierarchichal models of the world Kerne Rayner Project A2: Active acquisition of ecological and social information in wild macaques Andreas Schneider Project C3: The mechanistics of local-learning rules for curiosity in neural network models Shreya Venkatesan Omnibus project Giulia Zantonello Project B3: Curiosity-driven learning in children’s reading behaviour and knowledge acquisition Goßlerstr. 14 37073 Göttingen rtg2906@uni-goettingen.de In cooperation with Leon Sebastian Behle Juliette-Anne Belot Maren Monika Cremer Arne Gottwald Valentin Hassler Julian Christopher Kerl Arnout Lindeman Anne-Kathrin Mahlke Marlene M. Meyer Neue Seite Maik Mylius Kerne Rayner Andreas Schneider Shreya Venkatesan Giulia Zantonello Under construction
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