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Tackling Scientific Misconceptions: The Element of Surprise.
Child Development, 2021 Misconceptions about scientific concepts often prevail even if learners are confronted with conflicting evidence. This study tested the facilitative role of surprise in children's revision of misconceptions regarding water displacement in a sample of ...
M. Theobald, Garvin Brod
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What is value – accumulated reward or evidence?
Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 2012 Why are you reading this abstract? In some sense, your answer will cast the exercise as valuable – but what is value? In what follows, we suggest that value is evidence or, more exactly, log Bayesian evidence.
Karl eFriston +2 more
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Surprise Acts as a Reducer of Outcome Value in Human Reinforcement Learning
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2020 Surprise occurs because of differences between a decision outcome and its predicted outcome (prediction error), regardless of whether the error is positive or negative.
Motofumi Sumiya +2 more
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Resilience: Accounting for the Noncomputable
Ecology and Society, 2009 Plans to solve complex environmental problems should always consider the role of surprise. Nevertheless, there is a tendency to emphasize known computable aspects of a problem while neglecting aspects that are unknown and failing to ask questions about ...
Stephen R. Carpenter +3 more
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Behavioral Sciences, 2022 The frog-in-the-pan (FIP) phenomenon suggests that investors are more sensitive to abrupt price changes than gradual price changes in the stock market. Based on the cognitive-evolutionary model of surprise and the reinforcement learning model, this paper
Dapeng Liang +4 more
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Artificial Intelligence, 2022 In this paper we present a topological epistemic logic, with modalities for knowledge (modeled as the universal modality), knowability (represented by the topological interior operator), and unknowability of the actual world. The last notion has a non-self-referential reading (modeled by Cantor derivative: the set of limit points of a given set) and a ...
Baltag, Alexandru +2 more
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, 2021 In diesem #Podcast nehmen wir Sie mit in den #Kaukasus, nach Armenien. Dort hat unsere Autorin Manon Borel Menschen getroffen, die nach 2011 aus Syrien in die Republik im Südkaukasus flüchteten – und nun durch den Konflikt um #Bergkarabach am Ort ihrer ...
Borel, Manon
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Electrophysiological indicators of surprise and entropy in dynamic task-switching environments
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2013 This event-related brain potential (ERP) study aimed at bridging two hitherto widely separated domains of cognitive neuroscience. Specifically, we combined the analysis of cognitive control in a cued task-switching paradigm with the fundamental question ...
Bruno eKopp, Florian eLange
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Current Biology, 2019 Listening to music often evokes intense emotions [1, 2]. Recent research suggests that musical pleasure comes from positive reward prediction errors, which arise when what is heard proves to be better than expected [3].
V. Cheung +4 more
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IMF Working Papers, 2016 This paper investigates possible drivers of volatility in the South African rand since the onset of the global financial crisis. We assess the role played by local and international economic surprises, commodity price volatility, global market risk perceptions, and local political uncertainty.
Nasha Maveé +2 more
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