A preference for the unpredictable over the informative during self-directed learning

Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 958-963

  Markant, Doug ^a   Gureckis, Todd M ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

active learning; information search; self directed learning

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LEARNING; INFORMATION GAIN; INFORMATION GATHERING; INFORMATION SAMPLINGS; INFORMATION SEARCH; MAXIMIZING INFORMATION GAIN; PREDICTIVE UNCERTAINTY; SELF-DIRECTED LEARNING; SIMPLE++; UNCERTAINTY;

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DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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