Intrinsic motivation in cognitive architecture: intellectual curiosity originated from pattern discovery.

ABSTRACT: Studies on reinforcement learning have developed the representation of curiosity, which is a type of intrinsic motivation that leads to high performance in a certain type of tasks. However, these studies have not thoroughly examined the internal cognitive mechanisms leading to this performance. In contrast to this previous framework, we propose a mechanism of intrinsic motivation focused on pattern discovery from the perspective of human cognition. This study deals with intellectual curiosity as a type of intrinsic motivation, which finds novel compressible patterns in the data. We represented the process of continuation and boredom of tasks driven by intellectual curiosity using "pattern matching," "utility," and "production compilation," which are general functions of the adaptive contro

SUBMITTER: Nagashima K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11525000 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature