Curiosity as the impulse to know: common behavioral and neural mechanisms underlying curiosity and impulsivity

摘要: Curiosity is critical to learning and generally seen as a highly desirable quality, while impulsivity maladaptive associated with deleterious outcomes. The differing views of these constructs present somewhat paradox, curiosity share remarkable overlaps, both in terms the way they are measured behaviorally their underlying neural substrates. Here, we review burgeoning research into highlight ways which many behavioral measures rely on time impulsive need know, right now, without delay. While our understanding basis still developing, discuss growing evidence supporting importance frontostriatal circuits dopaminergic inputs from midbrain, areas that reward processing more generally. commonalities between offer fertile ground for future developmental course influenced by sociocultural context, experimental parameters, neurological conditions, interventions. Finally, implications this paradoxical relationship current educational cultural trends tend dampen impulsivity, perhaps thereby inadvertently discouraging curiosity.