The drive for knowledge: the science of human information seeking

Part I : What Drives Humans to Seek Information?

1. The Motivational Processes of Sense-Making

2. From Curiosity to Interest

3. Curiosity-Driven Exploration

4. Searching for Information, from Infancy to Adolescence

Part II : How Do Humans Search for Information?

5. What Makes a Good Query?Chapter 5 - What Makes a Good Query?

6. Active Inference, Bayesian Optimal Design, and Expected Utility

7. Exploration Beyond Bandits 8. Representational Exchange in Human Social Learning

Part III : Which Machinery Supports the Drive for Knowledge?

9. Information-Seeking in the Brain

10. Attention as Rational Choice

11. Seeking Inner Knowledge

12. Edgework

Future challenges.