Boredom, Information-Seeking and Exploration

Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2016

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 1751-1756

  Geana, Andra ^a   Wilson, Robert C ^b   Daw, Nathaniel ^a   Cohen, Jonathan D ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

boredom; exploration; information seeking

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION USE;

ADAPTIVE SIGNALS; BOREDOM; DEMOTIVATION; EXPLORATION/EXPLOITATION; INFORMATION ACQUISITIONS; INFORMATION CONTENTS; INFORMATION EXPLORATION; INFORMATION SEEKING; TASK ENVIRONMENT;

BIOLOGY;

EID: 85139197792     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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