Chimpanzees and children are curious about social interactions DOI Creative Commons
Laura S. Lewis, Oded Ritov, Esther Herrmann

и другие.

Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 292(2048)

Опубликована: Июнь 1, 2025

Curiosity is adaptive, enhances learning, and reduces uncertainty. Social curiosity defined as the motivation to gain information about actions, relationships, psychology of others. Little known developmental evolutionary roots social curiosity. Here, across three comparative studies, we investigate whether chimpanzees (n = 27) young children (4-6 years old, n 94) show particular interest in interactions among third parties. Chimpanzees preferred watch videos compared with a single conspecific (Experiment 1) male even paid material cost 2). Finally, our results that boys become more curious negative whereas girls positive they develop, while demonstrated no preference for versus 3). Taken together, these findings suggest emerges early human ontogeny shared one two closest living relatives, chimpanzees.

Язык: Английский

Autistic traits foster effective curiosity-driven exploration DOI Creative Commons
Francesco Poli,

Maran Koolen,

Carlos A. Velázquez-Vargas

и другие.

PLoS Computational Biology, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 20(10), С. e1012453 - e1012453

Опубликована: Окт. 31, 2024

Curiosity-driven exploration involves actively engaging with the environment to learn from it. Here, we hypothesize that cognitive mechanisms underlying exploratory behavior may differ across individuals depending on personal characteristics such as autistic traits. In turn, this variability might influence successful exploration. To investigate this, collected self- and other-reports of traits university students, tested them in an task which participants could hiding patterns multiple characters. Participants' prediction errors learning progress (i.e., decrease error) were tracked a hierarchical delta-rule model. Crucially, freely decide when disengage character what explore next. We examined whether modulated relation found lower scores insistence-on-sameness general less persistent, primarily relying during initial stages Conversely, higher more persistent relied later phases exploration, resulting better performance task. This research advances our understanding interplay between drives, emphasizing importance individual processes highlighting need for personalized approaches.

Язык: Английский

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Chimpanzees and children are curious about social interactions DOI Creative Commons
Laura S. Lewis, Oded Ritov, Esther Herrmann

и другие.

Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 292(2048)

Опубликована: Июнь 1, 2025

Curiosity is adaptive, enhances learning, and reduces uncertainty. Social curiosity defined as the motivation to gain information about actions, relationships, psychology of others. Little known developmental evolutionary roots social curiosity. Here, across three comparative studies, we investigate whether chimpanzees (n = 27) young children (4-6 years old, n 94) show particular interest in interactions among third parties. Chimpanzees preferred watch videos compared with a single conspecific (Experiment 1) male even paid material cost 2). Finally, our results that boys become more curious negative whereas girls positive they develop, while demonstrated no preference for versus 3). Taken together, these findings suggest emerges early human ontogeny shared one two closest living relatives, chimpanzees.

Язык: Английский

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