ArticleeLife2023
Novelty and uncertainty differentially drive exploration across development.
Article in eLife, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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22 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 41 citations in OpenAlex.
- Effects of generative artificial intelligence on students' learning motivation: evidence from a meta-analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Pooled it
- Drivers of exploration early in development: Perceptual novelty rather than a quest for information.Developmental psychology · 2026Article
- How Uncertainty Affects Children's Exploration and Exploitation in Statistical Learning.Developmental science · 2026Article
- Trusting Wisely? Developmental Changes in How Children Learn and Adapt to Partner Trustworthiness.Developmental science · 2026Article
- Children Understand How Adults' Achievement Goals Drive Actions.Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science · 2026Article
- Blunted reward-related striatal activity and behavioral disinhibition as a pathway to adolescent cannabis and e-cigarette use.Frontiers in adolescent medicine · 2026Article
- Prefrontal cortex development and its implications in mental illness.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2026Review
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- Exploration is associated with socioeconomic disparities in learning and academic achievement in adolescence.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Perceptual Novelty Drives Early Exploration in a Bottom-Up Manner.Developmental science · 2025Article
- The Effect of Reward Magnitude on Different Types of Exploration in Human Reinforcement Learning.Computational brain & behavior · 2025Article
- Adaptive Decision-Making "Fast" and "Slow": A Model of Creative Thinking.The European journal of neuroscience · 2025Review
- Seeking New Information With Old Questions: Children and Adults Reuse and Recombine Concepts From Prior Questions.Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science · 2025Article
- Intolerance of uncertainty and psychological flexibility as predictors of mental health from adolescence to old age.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2024Article
- Individual differences in information demand have a low dimensional structure predicted by some curiosity traits.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Reviewing explore/exploit decision-making as a transdiagnostic target for psychosis, depression, and anxiety.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2024Review
- Sensitivity to the Instrumental Value of Choice Increases Across Development.Psychological science · 2024Article
- Heterogeneity in strategy use during arbitration between experiential and observational learning.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Multifaceted information-seeking motives in children.Nature communications · 2023Article
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Abstract
Across the lifespan, individuals frequently choose between exploiting known rewarding options or exploring unknown alternatives. A large body of work has suggested that children may explore more than adults. However, because novelty and reward uncertainty are often correlated, it is unclear how they differentially influence decision-making across development. Here, children, adolescents, and adults (ages 8-27 years,
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