Curiosity, Creativity
and Complexity
Conference
May 23-25, 2023
Jerome L. Greene Science Center, 9th Floor 3227 Broadway, NY, NY
Agenda: Day 1
Check in and Refreshments
Welcome/Opening Remarks from Jacqueline Gottlieb, Columbia University
Tali Sharot, University College London
Motives for information seeking: Theory and applications
Ming Hsu, University of California-Berkeley
Daniel Schacter, Harvard University
On the relations among creativity, memory and episodic simulation
Break and Poster Viewing
Bruno Averbeck, National Institute of Mental Health
Neural and computational mechanisms underlying exploratory behavior
Benjamin Hayden, University of Minnesota
Neural signatures of categorically distinct information-seeking states in virtual foraging
Ilya Monosov, Washington University, St Louis
Neurobiology of curiosity
Lunch and Poster Viewing
Joy Geng, University of California-Davis
Good-enough is sometimes best: The role of attentional guidance in visual search
Floris de Lange, Donders Institute
How does surprise influence information sampling and curiosity?
Russell Golman, Carnegie Mellon University
The information-gap theory of curiosity
Reception and Poster Viewing
Agenda: Day 2
Speaker and Travel Awardees Breakfast
Check in and Refreshments
Announcements
Jessica Andrews-Hanna, University of Arizona
Minds at rest: What resting state cognition can tell us about creativity, curiosity and rumination
Kinneret Teodorescu, Technion, Israel
The foraging mind: A link between spatial search, creativity and dishonesty
Kalina Christoff, University of British Columbia
Spontaneous thought as an act of self-exploration: A view from the dynamic framework of thought
Break and Poster Viewing
Pietro Ortoleva, Princeton University
When to decide: Choice in parallel search
Yusufcan Masatioglu, University of Maryland
Intrinsic information preferences and skewnes
Michaela Pagel, Columbia University
Beliefs that entertain
Lunch and Poster Viewing
Catherine Hartley, New York University
Causes and consequences of exploration across development
Jochen Triesch, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies
Exploring and learning to represent objects
Ian Osband, Google Deep Mind, London
Epistemic neural networks
Reception and Poster Viewing
Agenda: Day 3
Check in and Refreshments
Mattias Gruber, Cardiff University
Individual differences in how curiosity and prediction errors affect learning and information seeking
Ifat Levy, Yale University
Individual differences in decision-making under uncertainty
Angela Yu, University of California-San Diego
Individual differences in intrinsic motivations
Todd Gureckis, New York University
Studying the structure of playful goals
Daniel Polani, University of Hertfordshire
Empowerment: The information that would be free
Break
Moderated Discussion
Break
Poster Session
Day 1
Matlin*; E., Harvard University
Kedrick*, K., Gebhart, T., Funk, R.J., University of Minnesota
Dan*, O., Levy, I., Yale University
Jin*, Y., Jensen, G., Gottlieb, J., Ferrera, V., Columbia University
Bellaiche*, L., Shahi, R., Turpin, M., Ragnhildstveit, A., Sprockett, S., Barr, N., Christensen, A., Seli, P., Duke University
Groves*, K.R., Ripollés, P., Zuanazzi, A., New York University
Hubert*, K. F., Zabelina, D. L., University Of Arkansas
Liquin*, E. G., Tsai, B., Rhodes, M., Gureckis, T.M., New York University
Bounia-Mastrogianni*, P., Ghilardi, T., Poli, F., Hunnius, S., Mareschal, D., Birkbeck, University of London
Yiu*, E., Gopnik, A., University of California-Berkeley
Brändle*, F., Wu, C.M., Schulz, E., Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
Chu*, J., Cheyette*, S.J., Diggs-Galligan, S., Tenenbaum, J.B., Schulz, L.E., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sung*, H., Ostrow, M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Karni*, G., Mattar, M.G., Emberson, L., Daw, N.D., Princeton University
Doyle*, C., Shader, S., Lau, M., Sano, M., Yamins, D.L.K, Haber, N., Stanford University
Goud*, A., Cohanpour, M., Yu, A., Gottlieb, J., Columbia University
Molnar*, A., Golman, R., University Of Chicago-Booth School of Business
Colas*, C., Teodorescu, L., Yuan, E., Côté, M., Oudeyer, P., French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation
Poster Session
Day 1
continued
Mihali*, A., Broeker, M., Ragalmuto, F., Horga*, G., Columbia University
Feng*, Y., Bromberg-Martin, E., Monosov, I., Washington University
Kosoy*, E., Pathak, D., Agrawal, P., Efros, A., Gopnik, A., University of California-Berkeley
Eschmann*, K.C.J., Singh, K.D., Gruber, M., Cardiff University
Davies, B., Sankar*, A., Stanford University
Froemer*, R., Kim, J., Prater Fahey, M., Shenhav, A., University of Birmingham
Singletary*, N.M., Horga, G., Gottlieb, J., Columbia University
Xiong*, H., Ji-An, L., Mattar, M., Wilson, R., University of Arizona
Li*, Y., Gottlieb, J., Columbia University
Ho*, M., Cohen, J., Griffiths, T., Princeton University
Eum*, B., Enkavi, Z., O’Doherty, J., Rangel, A., California Institute of Technology
Lakshminarasimhan*, K., Zhu, S., Angelaki, D., New York University
Berlot*, E., Schmitt, L.M., Huber-Huber, C., Peelen, M.V., De Lange, F.P., Donders Institute-Amsterdam, Radboud University
Ajuwon*, V., Monteiro, T., Ojeda, A., Murphy, R., Walton, M., Kacelnik, A., University of Oxford
Akande*, A., Kreyenmeier, P., Spering, M., University of British Columbia
Badyna*, J., Yttri, E., Carnegie Mellon
Elsey*, J., Niebur, E., Stuphorn, V., Johns Hopkins University
Bussell* J., Bromberg-Martin, E., Abbott, L., Axel, R., Columbia University
Poster Session
Day 2
Kauvar*, I., Doyle, C., Zhou, L., Haber, N., Stanford University
Tani*, N., Olson, I., Newcombe, N., Temple University
Löwe*, A.T., Touzo, L., Muhle-Karbe, P.S., Saxe, A.M., Summerfield, C., Schuck, N.W., Max Planck Human Development
Franco*, P., Yadav,N., Murawski, University of Melbourne
Hong*, T., Stauffer W., Carnegie Mellon University, University Of Pittsburgh
Whitecross*, W.M., Smithson, M., Australian National University
Jaskir*, A., Frank, M.J., Brown University
Liu *, J., Wang, S., University of Maryland-College Park
Wylie*, J., Manalili, M., Gantman, A., Young, L., Boston College
Orwig*, W., Edenbaum, E., Greene, J., Schacter, D.L., Harvard
Rischall, I., Hunter, L., Jensen, G., Gottlieb, J., Columbia University
Zhou*, D., Patankar, S., Gerlach, M., Zurn, P., Lydon-Staley, D., Bassett, D.S., University of Pennsylvannia
Kaiko*, I., Todd, J., Hunt, C., Irish., M., University of Sydney
Yoder*, H., Trattner, J., Jiang, A., Sands, L.P., Kishida, K.T., Wake Forest University
O’Donoghue*, E.M., Eschmann, K.C.J., Tsujimura, H., Crawford, B., Caswell, D., Oosterwijk, S., Gruber, M. J., Cardiff University
Molinaro*, G., Collins, A.G.E., University of California-Berkeley
Kressin Palacios*, G.K., Bellana, B., Honey, C., University of California-Davis
Zheng*, J., Guimarães, R., Perona, P., Meister, M., California Institute of Technology
Poster Session
Day 2
continued
Foster*, R., Sweeney, L., Kim, J., Gomez, R., Munakata, Y., Johns Hopkins University
Rothenhoefer*, K.M., Stocker, M., Costa, V.D., Oregon National Primate Center
Fan*, S., Dal Monte, O., Nair, A.R., Fagan, N.A., Chang, S.W., Yale University
Dahmani*, A., Amir, D., Thomas, A., Gopnik, A., University of California-Berkeley
Vrantsidis*, T.H., Lombrozo, T., Princeton University
Vessel, E.A., Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics
Domínguez-Zamora*, J.F., Horga, G., Gottlieb, J., Columbia University
Powell*, N., Panfili, D., Oh, Y., Hayhoe, M., Unviversity of Texas-Austin
Locke*, S., Yang, Y., Sampson, S., Emeric, E., Usher, M., Levy, D., Stuphorn, V., Niebur, E., Johns Hopkins University
Palumbo, A*, Groves, K., Vidal, E.L.M., Ripollés, P., New York University
Law*, C., Chau, B.K.H, Hong Kong University
Padilla*, L.E., Roediger, D.J., Mueller, B.A., Dimaggio-Potter, M.E., Fiecas, M.B., Cullen, K.R., University of Minnesota
Winston*, B., Chen, J., Barrett, F., Johns Hopkins University
King*, S., Kronberg, G., Mcclain, N., Ceceli, A., Gray, J., Alia-Klein, N., Goldstein, R.Z., Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Korem*, N., Duek, O., Jia, R., Grubb, M., Levy, I., Yale University
Boucenna*, S., Bergoin, R., Cohen, D., Pitti, A., Cy Paris Cergy Universite
Yasuda, S., Li, W., Martinez, D., Lake, B., Dillon, M., New York University
Davidson , G., Gureckis , T.M., Lake, B.M., New York University