
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