• DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9280.2009.02402.x
Corpus ID: 11719012

The Wick in the Candle of Learning

@article{Kang2009TheWI,
  title={The Wick in the Candle of Learning},
  author={M. J. Kang and Ming Hsu and I. Krajbich and G. Loewenstein and S. McClure and J. Wang and C. Camerer},
  journal={Psychological Science},
  year={2009},
  volume={20},
  pages={963 - 973}
}

M. J. Kang, Ming Hsu, +4 authors C. Camerer

Published 2009

Psychology, Medicine

Psychological Science

Curiosity has been described as a desire for learning and knowledge, but its underlying mechanisms are not well understood. We scanned subjects with functional magnetic resonance imaging while they read trivia questions. The level of curiosity when reading questions was correlated with activity in caudate regions previously suggested to be involved in anticipated reward. This finding led to a behavioral study, which showed that subjects spent more scarce resources (either limited tokens or… CONTINUE READING

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