Publications by authors named "Michael Cohanpour"
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- Humans are naturally curious and driven to reduce uncertainty, yet the brain mechanisms behind curiosity are not well understood.
- A study used fMRI to examine how visual uncertainty affects curiosity, revealing that lower confidence and sensory representations in the brain are linked to increased curiosity.
- Findings showed that activity in specific brain areas correlated with confidence and curiosity; notably, as visual certainty increased, curiosity decreased, highlighting how uncertainty fuels curiosity.
A central hypothesis in research on executive function is that controlled information processing is costly and is allocated according to the behavioral benefits it brings. However, while computational theories predict that the benefits of new information depend on prior uncertainty, the cellular effects of uncertainty on the executive network are incompletely understood. Using simultaneous recordings in monkeys, we describe several mechanisms by which the fronto-parietal network reacts to uncertainty.
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