Authors :
Prof. S M Rajashekar
Volume/Issue :
Volume 5 - 2020, Issue 12 - December
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Abstract :
Curiosity, due to the main incentive and
recollection centers in the brain, increases the capacity of
people to understand and remember new knowledge.In a
series of trivia questions by Matthias Gruber and his
colleagues at the University of California, Davis asked
volunteers to rate their level of curiosity and then test
their minds when they saw the answers to the questions.
Participants remembered responses to questions they
were more passionate about than to questions they were
less interested in.Brain scans showed increased activity
during this learning in regions that respond to reward
and follow the production of memory and showed
increased connectivity between the two regions. During
the trivia replies, volunteers were shown unrelated faces
and were better at recognizing those faces while
stimulating their interest. This shows that the learning of
incidental skills also leads to interest.
Curiosity, due to the main incentive and
recollection centers in the brain, increases the capacity of
people to understand and remember new knowledge.In a
series of trivia questions by Matthias Gruber and his
colleagues at the University of California, Davis asked
volunteers to rate their level of curiosity and then test
their minds when they saw the answers to the questions.
Participants remembered responses to questions they
were more passionate about than to questions they were
less interested in.Brain scans showed increased activity
during this learning in regions that respond to reward
and follow the production of memory and showed
increased connectivity between the two regions. During
the trivia replies, volunteers were shown unrelated faces
and were better at recognizing those faces while
stimulating their interest. This shows that the learning of
incidental skills also leads to interest.
