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Diana Omigie1, Joydeep Bhattacharya1
1Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK diana.omigie@gold.ac.uk j.bhattacharya@gold.ac.ukhttps://www.gold.ac.uk/psychology/staff/omigie/https://www.gold.ac.uk/psychology/staff/bhattacharya/.
The Behavioral and Brain Sciences
|May 21, 2024
Summary
Curiosity and creativity may stem from a shared novelty-seeking drive. However, integrating learning progress tracking offers a more complete understanding of their relationship.
Area of Science:
- Cognitive Science
- Neuroaesthetics
- Psychology of Creativity
Background:
- Novelty-seeking is a fundamental drive influencing exploration and learning.
- The relationship between curiosity, creativity, and novelty-seeking requires further clarification.
- Art and aesthetics provide a unique context for studying these psychological constructs.
Purpose of the Study:
- To explore the hypothesis that curiosity and creativity originate from a unified novelty-seeking mechanism.
- To investigate the role of learning progress tracking in modulating novelty-seeking behavior.
- To propose a comprehensive framework linking novelty-seeking, learnability, curiosity, and creativity.
Main Methods:
- Conceptual analysis integrating findings from cognitive science, psychology, and neuroaesthetics.
- Review of existing literature on novelty-seeking, curiosity, and creativity.
- Theoretical modeling of the interplay between exploration, learning, and creative cognition.
Main Results:
- Evidence supports the notion of a shared underlying mechanism for curiosity and creativity driven by novelty-seeking.
- Learning progress tracking significantly influences the direction and persistence of exploratory actions.
- A simple novelty-seeking model is insufficient; learnability is a critical moderating factor.
Conclusions:
- Curiosity and creativity are intricately linked through a novelty-seeking mechanism.
- A nuanced understanding requires integrating learnability and learning progress tracking into the framework.
- This refined model provides a more comprehensive explanation for the co-occurrence and relationship between curiosity and creativity.
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