{"title":"Beyond novelty: Learnability in the interplay between creativity, curiosity and artistic endeavours.","authors":"Diana Omigie, Joydeep Bhattacharya","doi":"10.1017/S0140525X23003400","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X23003400","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Using art and aesthetics as context, we explore the notion that curiosity and creativity emanate from a single novelty-seeking mechanism and outline support for the idea. However, we also highlight the importance of learning progress tracking in exploratory action and advocate for a nuanced understanding that aligns novelty-seeking with learnability. This, we argue, offers a more comprehensive framework of how curiosity and creativity are related.</p>","PeriodicalId":8698,"journal":{"name":"Behavioral and Brain Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":29.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141069586","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rocco Chiou, Francesca M Branzi, Katya Krieger-Redwood, Elizabeth Jefferies
{"title":"Dissecting the neuroanatomy of creativity and curiosity: The subdivisions within networks matter.","authors":"Rocco Chiou, Francesca M Branzi, Katya Krieger-Redwood, Elizabeth Jefferies","doi":"10.1017/S0140525X23003473","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X23003473","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Ivancovsky et al. argue that the neurocognitive mechanisms of creativity and curiosity both rely on the interplay among brain networks. Research to date demonstrates that such inter-network dynamics are further complicated by functional fractionation within networks. Investigating how networks subdivide and reconfigure in service of a task offers insights about the precise anatomy that underpins creative and curious behaviour.</p>","PeriodicalId":8698,"journal":{"name":"Behavioral and Brain Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":29.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141069753","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An extension of the novelty-seeking model: Considering the plurality of novelty types and their differential interactions with memory.","authors":"Anaïs Servais, Christine Bastin","doi":"10.1017/S0140525X2300345X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X2300345X","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The novelty-seeking model suggests that curiosity and creativity originate from novelty processes. However, different types of novelty exist, each with distinctive relationships with memory, which potentially influence curiosity and creativity in distinct ways. We thus propose expanding the NSM model to consider these different novelty types and their specific involvement in creativity.</p>","PeriodicalId":8698,"journal":{"name":"Behavioral and Brain Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":29.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141070608","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Wendy C. Higgins, Alexander J. Gillett, David M. Kaplan, Robert M. Ross
{"title":"Proxy failure and poor measurement practices in psychological science","authors":"Wendy C. Higgins, Alexander J. Gillett, David M. Kaplan, Robert M. Ross","doi":"10.1017/s0140525x2300287x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x2300287x","url":null,"abstract":"We argue that proxy failure contributes to poor measurement practices in psychological science and that a tradeoff exists between the legibility and fidelity of proxies whereby increasing legibility can result in decreased fidelity.","PeriodicalId":8698,"journal":{"name":"Behavioral and Brain Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":29.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140936983","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zeb Kurth-Nelson, Steve Sullivan, Joel Z Leibo, Marc Guitart-Masip
{"title":"Dynamic diversity is the answer to proxy failure.","authors":"Zeb Kurth-Nelson, Steve Sullivan, Joel Z Leibo, Marc Guitart-Masip","doi":"10.1017/S0140525X23002923","DOIUrl":"10.1017/S0140525X23002923","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We argue that a diverse and dynamic pool of agents mitigates proxy failure. Proxy modularity plays a key role in the ongoing production of diversity. We review examples from a range of scales.</p>","PeriodicalId":8698,"journal":{"name":"Behavioral and Brain Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":29.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140911630","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Proxies, heuristics, and goal alignment.","authors":"Bruce D Burns","doi":"10.1017/S0140525X2300290X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X2300290X","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Decision-making heuristics rely on proxies so the elements of heuristics appear to map well to the elements of proxies identified by John et al. However, unlike proxy failure, heuristics do not fail because of feedback. This may be because for successful heuristics the goals of regulators and agents are aligned, but this is not the case for proxy failure.</p>","PeriodicalId":8698,"journal":{"name":"Behavioral and Brain Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":29.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140911588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reductionism and proxy failure: From neuroscience to target-based drug discovery.","authors":"Arash Sadri, Sepideh Paknezhad","doi":"10.1017/S0140525X23002893","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X23002893","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Reductionist methodologies reduce phenomena to some of their lower-level components. Researchers gradually shift their focus away from observing the actual object of study toward investigating and optimizing such lower-level proxies. Following reductionism, these proxies progressively diverge further from the original object of study. We vividly illustrate this in the evolution of target-based drug discovery from rational and phenotypic drug discovery.</p>","PeriodicalId":8698,"journal":{"name":"Behavioral and Brain Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":29.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140911651","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Oliver Braganza, Yohan J. John, Leigh Caldwell, Dakota E. McCoy
{"title":"Teleonomy, legibility, and diversity: Do we need more “proxynomics”?","authors":"Oliver Braganza, Yohan J. John, Leigh Caldwell, Dakota E. McCoy","doi":"10.1017/s0140525x24000050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x24000050","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:disp-quote> When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. (Strathern, 1997) </jats:disp-quote> Our target article set out with an ambitious goal: To provide a unified account of the disparate descriptions of proxy failure across not only social and natural sciences but also engineering and artificial intelligence research. Clearly such a task could only truly be achieved by a broad transdisciplinary community. The wide range of commentaries from a remarkable array of disciplines has not only confirmed our main proposition – that the disparate cases do reflect the same core phenomenon of “proxy failure” – but suggests the viability of a new interdisciplinary undertaking that we might call “proxynomics.” Several comments highlighted key issues and extensions, others provided novel illuminating examples and, perhaps most importantly, quite a few proposed viable solutions or at least mitigation strategies.","PeriodicalId":8698,"journal":{"name":"Behavioral and Brain Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":29.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140936826","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Behavioral proxies compete by the time courses of their rewards, including endogenous rewards.","authors":"George Ainslie","doi":"10.1017/S0140525X23002960","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X23002960","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Natural selection is slow, so behavioral goals must be based on patterns of reward. Addictions are rewarded in the same way as adaptive choice, so they can be distinguished only by their time course. In addition, the reward process is more plastic than is generally recognized, so abstract goals are shaped by the \"legibility\" of their proxies.</p>","PeriodicalId":8698,"journal":{"name":"Behavioral and Brain Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":29.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140911553","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An updated perspective on teleonomy.","authors":"Jonathan Bartlett","doi":"10.1017/S0140525X23002868","DOIUrl":"10.1017/S0140525X23002868","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The analysis of proxy failure given by John et al. provides a good starting point for interdisciplinary discussions. Here, the discussion of teleonomy is extended and updated to include more recent discourse on the topic.</p>","PeriodicalId":8698,"journal":{"name":"Behavioral and Brain Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":29.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140911494","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}