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How people decide what they want to know

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Computational mechanisms of curiosity and goal-directed exploration

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Parietal neurons encode information sampling based on decision uncertainty

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Diverse motives for human curiosity

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Induction and relief of curiosity elicit parietal and frontal activity

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Prefrontal cortex as a meta-reinforcement learning system

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Neuromodulation of Attention

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An effect of serotonergic stimulation on learning rates for rewards apparent after long intertrial intervals

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Dorsal anterior cingulate-brainstem ensemble as a reinforcement meta-learner

(2018) Massimo Silvetti et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Towards a neuroscience of active sampling and curiosity

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Active Inference: A Process Theory

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Changes in predictive cuing modulate the hemispheric distribution of the P1 inhibitory response to attentional targets

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Dorsal anterior cingulate cortex and the value of control

(2016) Amitai Shenhav et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Active sensing in the categorization of visual patterns

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Noradrenaline and Dopamine Neurons in the Reward/Effort Trade-Off: A Direct Electrophysiological Comparison in Behaving Monkeys

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Adaptive effort investment in cognitive and physical tasks: a neurocomputational model

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Overlapping Neural Systems Represent Cognitive Effort and Reward Anticipation

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The Expected Value of Control: An Integrative Theory of Anterior Cingulate Cortex Function

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From conflict management to reward-based decision making: Actors and critics in primate medial frontal cortex

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The influence of the noradrenergic system on optimal control of neural plasticity

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Value and prediction error estimation account for volatility effects in ACC: A model-based fMRI study

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Neuron-type-specific signals for reward and punishment in the ventral tegmental area

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Rational regulation of learning dynamics by pupil-linked arousal systems

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Orienting and Reorienting: The Locus Coeruleus Mediates Cognition through Arousal

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In Monkeys Making Value-Based Decisions, LIP Neurons Encode Cue Salience and Not Action Value

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Dopamine, Affordance and Active Inference

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Value and Prediction Error in Medial Frontal Cortex: Integrating the Single-Unit and Systems Levels of Analysis

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Control of visual cortical signals by prefrontal dopamine

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Medial prefrontal cortex as an action-outcome predictor

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Attention, Intention, and Priority in the Parietal Lobe

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A selective role for dopamine in stimulus–reward learning

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The free-energy principle: a unified brain theory?

(2010) Karl Friston   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

Dopamine in Motivational Control: Rewarding, Aversive, and Alerting

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Effort-Based Cost-Benefit Valuation and the Human Brain

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The locus coeruleus and noradrenergic modulation of cognition

(2009) Susan J. Sara   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

The Neurobiology of Decision: Consensus and Controversy

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