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Curiosity, Creativity

and Complexity

Conference

May 23-25, 2023

Jerome L. Greene Science Center, 9th Floor 3227 Broadway, NY, NY

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Agenda: Day 1

8 15 8 40am

Check in and Refreshments

8 45 9 00am

Welcome/Opening Remarks from Jacqueline Gottlieb, Columbia University

9 05 9 30am

Tali Sharot, University College London

Motives for information seeking: Theory and applications

9 35 10 00am

Ming Hsu, University of California-Berkeley

Knowing what you don't know: Information seeking in open-ended decisions

10 05 10 30am

Daniel Schacter, Harvard University

On the relations among creativity, memory and episodic simulation

10 35 11 05am

Break and Poster Viewing

11 10 11 35am

Bruno Averbeck, National Institute of Mental Health

Neural and computational mechanisms underlying exploratory behavior

11 40am 12 05pm

Benjamin Hayden, University of Minnesota

Neural signatures of categorically distinct information-seeking states in virtual foraging

12 10 12 35pm

Ilya Monosov, Washington University, St Louis

Neurobiology of curiosity


12 40 2 30pm

Lunch and Poster Viewing

2 35 3 00pm

Joy Geng, University of California-Davis

Good-enough is sometimes best: The role of attentional guidance in visual search

3 05 3 30pm

Floris de Lange, Donders Institute

How does surprise influence information sampling and curiosity?

3 35 4 00pm

Russell Golman, Carnegie Mellon University

The information-gap theory of curiosity

4 00 6 00pm

Reception and Poster Viewing

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Agenda: Day 2

8 00 8 55am

Speaker and Travel Awardees Breakfast

8 15 8 55am

Check in and Refreshments

8 55 9 05am

Announcements

9 10 9 35am

Jessica Andrews-Hanna, University of Arizona

Minds at rest: What resting state cognition can tell us about creativity, curiosity and rumination

9 40 10 05am

Kinneret Teodorescu, Technion, Israel

The foraging mind: A link between spatial search, creativity and dishonesty

10 10 10 35am

Kalina Christoff, University of British Columbia

Spontaneous thought as an act of self-exploration: A view from the dynamic framework of thought

10 40 11 05am

Break and Poster Viewing

11 10 11 35am

Pietro Ortoleva, Princeton University

When to decide: Choice in parallel search

11 40am 12 05pm

Yusufcan Masatioglu, University of Maryland

Intrinsic information preferences and skewnes

12 10 12 35pm

Michaela Pagel, Columbia University

Beliefs that entertain

12 40 2 30pm

Lunch and Poster Viewing

2 35 3 00pm

Catherine Hartley, New York University

Causes and consequences of exploration across development

3 05 3 30pm

Jochen Triesch, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies

Exploring and learning to represent objects

3 35 4 00pm

Ian Osband, Google Deep Mind, London

Epistemic neural networks

4 00 6 00pm

Reception and Poster Viewing

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Agenda: Day 3

8 15 8 55am

Check in and Refreshments

9 00 9 25am

Mattias Gruber, Cardiff University


Individual differences in how curiosity and prediction errors affect learning and information seeking

9 30 9 55am

Ifat Levy, Yale University

Individual differences in decision-making under uncertainty

10 00 10 25am

Angela Yu, University of California-San Diego

Individual differences in intrinsic motivations

11 00 11 25am

Todd Gureckis, New York University


Studying the structure of playful goals

11 30 11 55am

Daniel Polani, University of Hertfordshire

Empowerment: The information that would be free


11 55 12 10pm

Break

12 15 1 45pm

Moderated Discussion

10 30 10 55am

Break

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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

1 Endogenous information acquisition college choice and undermatching
2 Closing gaps in scientific knowledge a topological approach to understanding creativity and discovery in science
3 Exploration of the unknown
4 Superstitious learning of abstract order from random reinforcement
5 Whether and why we prefer artworks purportedly created by humans vs Artificial intelligence models

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

6 Through the lens of music imagining movies scenes through soundtrack listening
7 Diminishing creative returns predicting optimal creative performance
8 Balancing creativity and reuse in human question asking
9 Object exploration with vision and touch effects of object complexity on preschoolers curiosity and preference
10 Discovering new functions in everyday tools by children adults and llm s
11 Engagement as maximizing learnability balancing difficulty and prior knowledge
12 Curious creative and complex an account of play as goal invention

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

18 Predictive models are not enough for explanation seeking curiosity a case study
13 Rational information gathering account of infant exploratory behavior
14 Developmental curiosity and social interaction in virtual agents
15 Asking questions based on uncertainty and the probability of a test
16 Impatience for information curiosity is here today gone tomorrow
17 On the difficulty of evaluating curious artificial agents that pursue their own goals
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32 Dorsal raphe neurons signal expected reward amount and reward delay during multi attribute decision making
25 Introspective inference counteracts perceptual distortion

Mihali*, A., Broeker, M., Ragalmuto, F., Horga*, G., Columbia University

Feng*, Y., Bromberg-Martin, E., Monosov, I., Washington University

26 Curiouser and Curiouser Children s Intrinsic Exploration of Mazes and Its Effects on Reaching a Goal in DeepMind Lab
33 Theta oscillations coordinate curiosity driven memory enhancements

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

19 Escaping technological learning traps through curiosity
27 Neural underpinnings of the evaluation of control to determine when mental effort is worth investing
34 A region of posterior parietal cortex prospects the future certainty provided by instrumental information

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

20 How to find complex exploration behaviors

Xiong*, H., Ji-An, L., Mattar, M., Wilson, R., University of Arizona

28 Distinct roles of reward and information gains in prioritizing decision relevant stimuli
35 Value signals in the orbitofrontal cortex incorporate reference dependent news utility

Li*, Y., Gottlieb, J., Columbia University

21 Complexity and rigidity in human planning

Ho*, M., Cohen, J., Griffiths, T., Princeton University

22 Planning by active sensing
29 Information seeking vs reward maximization how widespread is curiosity across vertebrate species

Eum*, B., Enkavi, Z., O’Doherty, J., Rangel, A., California Institute of Technology

Lakshminarasimhan*, K., Zhu, S., Angelaki, D., New York University

23 I see How narrative meaning influences gaze behavior

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

30 Sensory uncertainty modulates reward based enhancements in complex predictive actions

Akande*, A., Kreyenmeier, P., Spering, M., University of British Columbia

Badyna*, J., Yttri, E., Carnegie Mellon

36 Modulation of decision policy by environmental uncertainty striatal stimulation
24 The interaction between menu complexity and attentional sampling strategies in multi attribute decision making

Elsey*, J., Niebur, E., Stuphorn, V., Johns Hopkins University

31 Representations of information value in mouse orbitofrontal cortex during information seeking

Bussell* J., Bromberg-Martin, E., Abbott, L., Axel, R., Columbia University

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Poster Session

Day 2

6 The effect of agency on memory and learning in preschool children exploring the role of curiosity
13 Curious replay for model based adaptation

Kauvar*, I., Doyle, C., Zhou, L., Haber, N., Stanford University

Tani*, N., Olson, I., Newcombe, N., Temple University

14 Tackling complexity using computational complexity theory to model human cognition
7 Regularised neural networks mimic human insight

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

15 Computational complexity drives extended deliberation
8 Curiously different interest curiosity and deprivation curiosity have distinct benefits and drawbacks

Hong*, T., Stauffer W., Carnegie Mellon University, University Of Pittsburgh

1 Creative insight and generalization in reinforcement learning

Whitecross*, W.M., Smithson, M., Australian National University

Jaskir*, A., Frank, M.J., Brown University

16 The role of model uncertainty in the arbitration between model based vs model free reinforcement learning
2 The language of creativity what large language models have to say about creative writing
9 When and why the minds of others pique our curiosity

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

17 Inefficient prioritization of task relevant attributes during instrumental information demand
10 Dynamics of curiosity and complexity in wikipedia readers
3 Investigating the intersection between mind wandering and cognitive flexibility in anxiety

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

4 Individual differences in creativity may be linked to decision making behaviors

Yoder*, H., Trattner, J., Jiang, A., Sands, L.P., Kishida, K.T., Wake Forest University

11 Isolating the distinct motivational factors that shape real world news seeking

O’Donoghue*, E.M., Eschmann, K.C.J., Tsujimura, H., Crawford, B., Caswell, D., Oosterwijk, S., Gruber, M. J., Cardiff University

18 Human hacks and bugs in the recruitment of reward systems for goal achievement

Molinaro*, G., Collins, A.G.E., University of California-Berkeley

5 How are lingering thoughts modulated by current concerns

Kressin Palacios*, G.K., Bellana, B., Honey, C., University of California-Davis

12 Mice in Manhattan rapid learning and flexible routing in a massively reconfigurable maze with or without cortex

Zheng*, J., Guimarães, R., Perona, P., Meister, M., California Institute of Technology

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25 Gains and losses modulate novelty seeking during explore exploit decisions
31 Cognitive control is inversely related to statistical learning in 5 year old children

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

26 Closed loop microstimulation of primate prefrontal cortex causally modulates dynamic social attention
32 Caregiver presence influences the explore exploit tradeoff
19 Multiple roles for simplicity in evaluating explanations

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

20 Pleasure from understanding

Vessel, E.A., Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics

21 Deploying attention for information gains during probabilistic decisions

Domínguez-Zamora*, J.F., Horga, G., Gottlieb, J., Columbia University

22 The use of optic flow during locomotion

Powell*, N., Panfili, D., Oh, Y., Hayhoe, M., Unviversity of Texas-Austin

23 Spike synchrony during information gathering in multi attribute decision making

Locke*, S., Yang, Y., Sampson, S., Emeric, E., Usher, M., Levy, D., Stuphorn, V., Niebur, E., Johns Hopkins University

24 Optimizing music based interventions for stroke rehabilitation

Palumbo, A*, Groves, K., Vidal, E.L.M., Ripollés, P., New York University

27 The causal role of lateral frontopolar cortex in choices between complex environments

Law*, C., Chau, B.K.H, Hong Kong University

28 Creativity camp participation effects on amygdala frontal resting state functional connectivity in adolescents

Padilla*, L.E., Roediger, D.J., Mueller, B.A., Dimaggio-Potter, M.E., Fiecas, M.B., Cullen, K.R., University of Minnesota

29 Effects of Psilocybin on inter subject brain synchronization during music listening

Winston*, B., Chen, J., Barrett, F., Johns Hopkins University

30 Verbal movie recall reveals heightened self reference and contextual variability in heroin addicted individuals

King*, S., Kronberg, G., Mcclain, N., Ceceli, A., Gray, J., Alia-Klein, N., Goldstein, R.Z., Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

33 Bayesian modeling of age related differences in instruction and learning based decision making

Korem*, N., Duek, O., Jia, R., Grubb, M., Levy, I., Yale University

34 Artificial attention model AAM a premise for bimodal language learning in infant and robot

Boucenna*, S., Bergoin, R., Cohen, D., Pitti, A., Cy Paris Cergy Universite

35 Goal attribution in human infants and machines

Yasuda, S., Li, W., Martinez, D., Lake, B., Dillon, M., New York University

36 Generating human like goals by synthesizing reward programs

Davidson , G., Gureckis , T.M., Lake, B.M., New York University