🔭 Did you miss out on the inaugural Curiosity, Information-Seeking, & Exploration conference? Videos of our entire 2-day program are now available: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... #CISE2025 @socforneuroecon.bsky.social @drjocutler.bsky.social
Next was the #CISE2025 conference. It's an excellent conference, w/standout talks by Lou Haux (chimp exploration) in day 1 part 1, Kara Kedrick (explore/exploit tradeoff) & @katenuss.bsky.social (strategic exploration across development) in day 1 part 2 (6/10)
I had so much fun organising #CISE2025 conference on Curiosity, Information Seeking & Exploration with Romy Frömer, @hayleydorfman.bsky.social, Ohad Dan, Matt Nassar, Tali Sharot & Jacqueline Gottlieb at beautiful Brown University then hearing about all the amazing research from our speakers…
Group photo of CISE attendees
Epic doubleheader with Bob Wilson & Jackie Gottlieb & that’s a wrap on #CISE2025 🔭 Thanks to our amazing speakers & attendees!
Had a wonderful time ✨ exploring ✨ new ideas and meeting cool people at the Curiosity, Info Seeking, and Exploration symposium #CISE2025! Thanks to all the organizers and Brown for hosting! Hope to be back next time.
Alice Xia, Brown G5 PhD student, studies strategic gossiping in social networks (lab and field) #CISE2025
www.feldmanhalllab.com/people
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Prof Caroline Charpentier (@caltech postdoc) shows Bayesian model evidence about advice-taking and confirmation bias
sldlab.umd.edu
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Prof Jennifer Bussell discovered that rodents *really* like an informational heads-up about how much water they'll get soon. Even give up a large of % water for this information.
PS informational choice is well predicted from OFC recording #CISE2025 jenniferbussell.org/cv/
At #CISE2025 Jordan Wylie is discussing curiosity about moral and immoral folks (eg Netflix) moralitylab.bc.edu/people/alumn...
Tour de force talk decomposing aspects of novelty, surprise, info gain in multi-state tasks by @modirshanechi.bsky.social
Novelty-seeking (visit new states) is common...even when its suboptimal
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We’re kicking off day 2 of #CISE2025 🔭 with a fun talk from George Loewenstein on his tour de force research program on information gap theory
George Loewenstein summarizing 30 yrs of brilliant studies on curiosity and desire for information (or a desire to not know, eg likely bad news) #CISE2025 at Brown Univ
One more week for abstract submissions! Join us for the Curiosity, Information Seeking & Exploration conference! 🔎🕵️♀️ Submit an abstract using the link below & check out the incredible speaker list 👇👇👇
@socforneuroecon.bsky.social @carneyinstitute.bsky.social #cise2025
