{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,7,3]],"date-time":"2026-07-03T17:24:21Z","timestamp":1783099461269,"version":"3.54.6"},"reference-count":74,"publisher":"Elsevier BV","license":[{"start":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,1]],"date-time":"2026-09-01T00:00:00Z","timestamp":1788220800000},"content-version":"tdm","delay-in-days":0,"URL":"https:\/\/www.elsevier.com\/tdm\/userlicense\/1.0\/"},{"start":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,1]],"date-time":"2026-09-01T00:00:00Z","timestamp":1788220800000},"content-version":"tdm","delay-in-days":0,"URL":"https:\/\/www.elsevier.com\/legal\/tdmrep-license"},{"start":{"date-parts":[[2026,6,10]],"date-time":"2026-06-10T00:00:00Z","timestamp":1781049600000},"content-version":"vor","delay-in-days":0,"URL":"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/"}],"funder":[{"DOI":"10.13039\/501100002341","name":"Research Council of Finland","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","id":[{"id":"10.13039\/501100002341","id-type":"DOI","asserted-by":"publisher"}]},{"DOI":"10.13039\/100007797","name":"Helsingin Yliopisto","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","id":[{"id":"10.13039\/100007797","id-type":"DOI","asserted-by":"publisher"}]},{"DOI":"10.13039\/501100009047","name":"Strategic Research Council","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","award":["358272"],"award-info":[{"award-number":["358272"]}],"id":[{"id":"10.13039\/501100009047","id-type":"DOI","asserted-by":"publisher"}]},{"DOI":"10.13039\/501100009047","name":"Strategic Research Council","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","award":["335236"],"award-info":[{"award-number":["335236"]}],"id":[{"id":"10.13039\/501100009047","id-type":"DOI","asserted-by":"publisher"}]}],"content-domain":{"domain":["elsevier.com","sciencedirect.com"],"crossmark-restriction":true},"short-container-title":["Cognition"],"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2026,9]]},"DOI":"10.1016\/j.cognition.2026.106598","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,6,4]],"date-time":"2026-06-04T10:58:01Z","timestamp":1780570681000},"page":"106598","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/elsevier_cm_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"special_numbering":"C","title":["Curiosity and evidence quality affect information seeking and eye movements during reading"],"prefix":"10.1016","volume":"274","author":[{"given":"Jaana","family":"Simola","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Hanna","family":"Julku","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Caitlin","family":"Dawson","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Sebastian","family":"\u00d6sterman","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Kaisa","family":"Elovaara","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Tuomo","family":"H\u00e4iki\u00f6","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"78","reference":[{"issue":"3","key":"10.1016\/j.cognition.2026.106598_bb0005","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","DOI":"10.1371\/journal.pcbi.1004164","article-title":"Theory of choice in bandit, information sampling and foraging tasks","volume":"11","author":"Averbeck","year":"2015","journal-title":"PLoS Computational Biology"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.cognition.2026.106598_bb0010","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"81","DOI":"10.1016\/j.visres.2015.10.009","article-title":"Eye movements reveal epistemic curiosity in human observers","volume":"117","author":"Baranes","year":"2015","journal-title":"Vision Research"},{"issue":"1","key":"10.1016\/j.cognition.2026.106598_bb0015","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1","DOI":"10.18637\/jss.v067.i01","article-title":"Fitting linear mixed-effects models using lme4","volume":"67","author":"Bates","year":"2015","journal-title":"Journal of Statistical Software"},{"issue":"4","key":"10.1016\/j.cognition.2026.106598_bb0020","first-page":"256","article-title":"An experimental study of human curiosity","volume":"45","author":"Berlyne","year":"1954","journal-title":"British Journal of Psychology"},{"issue":"3","key":"10.1016\/j.cognition.2026.106598_bb0025","first-page":"180","article-title":"A theory of human curiosity","volume":"45","author":"Berlyne","year":"1954","journal-title":"British Journal of Psychology"},{"issue":"10","key":"10.1016\/j.cognition.2026.106598_bb0030","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","DOI":"10.1371\/journal.pone.0165274","article-title":"Pupil diameter tracks lapses of attention","volume":"11","author":"van den Brink","year":"2016","journal-title":"PLoS One"},{"issue":"1481","key":"10.1016\/j.cognition.2026.106598_bb0035","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"933","DOI":"10.1098\/rstb.2007.2098","article-title":"Should I stay or should I go? How the human brain manages the trade-off between exploitation and exploration","volume":"362","author":"Cohen","year":"2007","journal-title":"Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, B: Biological Sciences"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.cognition.2026.106598_bb0040","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","DOI":"10.1016\/j.cognition.2025.106107","article-title":"Urges now, interests later: On the factors and dynamics of epistemic curiosity","volume":"259","author":"Dan","year":"2025","journal-title":"Cognition"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.cognition.2026.106598_bb0045","first-page":"50","article-title":"Evidence-based scientific thinking and decision-making in everyday life","volume":"9","author":"Dawson","year":"2024","journal-title":"Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.cognition.2026.106598_bb0050","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","DOI":"10.1016\/j.cognition.2022.105193","article-title":"If it\u2019s important, then I\u2019m curious: Increasing perceived usefulness stimulates curiosity","volume":"226","author":"Dubey","year":"2022","journal-title":"Cognition"},{"issue":"1","key":"10.1016\/j.cognition.2026.106598_bb0055","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1","DOI":"10.1093\/scan\/nsac050","article-title":"Curiosity and mesolimbic functional connectivity drive information seeking in real life","volume":"18","author":"Eschmann","year":"2023","journal-title":"Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience"},{"issue":"10","key":"10.1016\/j.cognition.2026.106598_bb0060","first-page":"1201","article-title":"The eye\u2013mind wandering link: Identifying gaze indices of mind wandering across tasks","volume":"46","author":"Faber","year":"2020","journal-title":"Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance"},{"issue":"5","key":"10.1016\/j.cognition.2026.106598_bb0065","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1016","DOI":"10.1037\/pspp0000257","article-title":"Confused or curious? Openness\/intellect predicts more positive interest-confusion relations","volume":"117","author":"Fayn","year":"2019","journal-title":"Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Personality Processes and Individual Differences"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.cognition.2026.106598_bb0070","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"21","DOI":"10.1016\/j.cobeha.2020.05.014","article-title":"The seductive lure of curiosity: information as a motivationally salient reward","volume":"35","author":"FitzGibbon","year":"2020","journal-title":"Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences"},{"issue":"6","key":"10.1016\/j.cognition.2026.106598_bb0075","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1097","DOI":"10.1037\/a0016786","article-title":"The implications of Big Five standing for the distribution of trait manifestation in behavior: Fifteen experience-sampling studies and a meta-analysis","volume":"97","author":"Fleeson","year":"2009","journal-title":"Journal of Personality and Social Psychology"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.cognition.2026.106598_bb0080","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"82","DOI":"10.1016\/j.jrp.2014.10.009","article-title":"Whole Trait Theory","volume":"56","author":"Fleeson","year":"2015","journal-title":"Journal of Research in Personality"},{"issue":"2","key":"10.1016\/j.cognition.2026.106598_bb0085","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"148","DOI":"10.1111\/j.2517-6161.1979.tb01068.x","article-title":"Bandit processes and dynamic allocation indices","volume":"41","author":"Gittins","year":"1979","journal-title":"Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B: Methodological"},{"issue":"12","key":"10.1016\/j.cognition.2026.106598_bb0090","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"758","DOI":"10.1038\/s41583-018-0078-0","article-title":"Towards a neuroscience of active sampling and curiosity","volume":"19","author":"Gottlieb","year":"2018","journal-title":"Nature Reviews Neuroscience"},{"issue":"11","key":"10.1016\/j.cognition.2026.106598_bb0095","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"585","DOI":"10.1016\/j.tics.2013.09.001","article-title":"Information-seeking, curiosity, and attention: computational and neural mechanisms","volume":"17","author":"Gottlieb","year":"2013","journal-title":"Trends in Cognitive Sciences"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.cognition.2026.106598_bb0100","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","DOI":"10.1016\/j.neuroimage.2019.116125","article-title":"Is perception the missing link between creativity, curiosity and schizotypy? Evidence from spontaneous eye-movements and responses to auditory oddball stimuli","volume":"202","author":"Gross","year":"2019","journal-title":"NeuroImage"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.cognition.2026.106598_bb0105","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"486","DOI":"10.1016\/j.neuron.2014.08.060","article-title":"States of curiosity modulate hippocampus-dependent learning via the dopaminergic circuit","volume":"84","author":"Gruber","year":"2014","journal-title":"Neuron"},{"issue":"12","key":"10.1016\/j.cognition.2026.106598_bb0110","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1014","DOI":"10.1016\/j.tics.2019.10.003","article-title":"How curiosity enhances hippocampus-dependent memory: The prediction, appraisal, curiosity, and exploration (PACE) framework","volume":"23","author":"Gruber","year":"2019","journal-title":"Trends in Cognitive Sciences"},{"issue":"2","key":"10.1016\/j.cognition.2026.106598_bb0115","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"377","DOI":"10.1016\/j.jbi.2008.08.010","article-title":"Research electronic data capture (REDCap)\u2014A metadata-driven methodology and workflow process for providing translational research informatics support","volume":"42","author":"Harris","year":"2009","journal-title":"Journal of Biomedical Informatics"},{"issue":"4","key":"10.1016\/j.cognition.2026.106598_bb0120","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"833","DOI":"10.1007\/s10648-019-09491-3","article-title":"Interest development and its relation to curiosity: Needed neuroscientific research","volume":"31","author":"Hidi","year":"2019","journal-title":"Educational Psychology Review"},{"issue":"3","key":"10.1016\/j.cognition.2026.106598_bb0125","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"394","DOI":"10.1080\/13546783.2012.669986","article-title":"Arguing about desirable consequences: What constitutes a convincing argument?","volume":"18","author":"Hoeken","year":"2012","journal-title":"Thinking & Reasoning"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.cognition.2026.106598_bb0130","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"105","DOI":"10.3389\/fnhum.2018.00105","article-title":"Eye movements during everyday behavior predict personality traits","volume":"12","author":"Hoppe","year":"2018","journal-title":"Frontiers in Human Neuroscience"},{"issue":"6","key":"10.1016\/j.cognition.2026.106598_bb0135","first-page":"878","article-title":"Shifts in attention during mental fatigue: Evidence from subjective, behavioral, physiological, and eye-tracking data","volume":"42","author":"Hopstaken","year":"2016","journal-title":"Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance"},{"issue":"45","key":"10.1016\/j.cognition.2026.106598_bb0140","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","DOI":"10.1073\/pnas.2415236121","article-title":"Individual differences in information demand have a low dimensional structure predicted by some curiosity traits","volume":"121","author":"Jach","year":"2024","journal-title":"Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences"},{"issue":"4","key":"10.1016\/j.cognition.2026.106598_bb0145","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"934","DOI":"10.1037\/xge0001109","article-title":"Why do people seek information? The role of personality traits and situation perception","volume":"151","author":"Jach","year":"2022","journal-title":"Journal of Experimental Psychology: General"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.cognition.2026.106598_bb0150","author":"Julku"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.cognition.2026.106598_bb0155","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"237","DOI":"10.1613\/jair.301","article-title":"Reinforcement learning: A survey","volume":"4","author":"Kaelbling","year":"1996","journal-title":"The Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.cognition.2026.106598_bb0160","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"179","DOI":"10.1111\/pops.12396","article-title":"Science curiosity and political information processing","volume":"38","author":"Kahan","year":"2017","journal-title":"Advances in Political Psychology"},{"issue":"8","key":"10.1016\/j.cognition.2026.106598_bb0165","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"963","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1467-9280.2009.02402.x","article-title":"The wick in the candle of learning: Epistemic curiosity activates reward circuitry and enhances memory","volume":"20","author":"Kang","year":"2009","journal-title":"Psychological Science"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.cognition.2026.106598_bb0170","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","DOI":"10.1016\/j.paid.2020.109836","article-title":"The five-dimensional curiosity scale revised (5DCR): Briefer subscales while separating overt and covert social curiosity","volume":"157","author":"Kashdan","year":"2020","journal-title":"Personality and Individual Differences"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.cognition.2026.106598_bb0175","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"449","DOI":"10.1016\/j.neuron.2015.09.010","article-title":"The psychology and neuroscience of curiosity","volume":"88","author":"Kidd","year":"2015","journal-title":"Neuron"},{"issue":"5","key":"10.1016\/j.cognition.2026.106598_bb0180","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","DOI":"10.1371\/journal.pone.0036399","article-title":"The Goldilocks effect: Human infants allocate attention to visual sequences that are neither too simple nor too complex","volume":"7","author":"Kidd","year":"2012","journal-title":"PLoS One"},{"issue":"5","key":"10.1016\/j.cognition.2026.106598_bb0185","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1795","DOI":"10.1111\/cdev.12263","article-title":"The Goldilocks effect in infant auditory attention","volume":"85","author":"Kidd","year":"2014","journal-title":"Child Development"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.cognition.2026.106598_bb0190","series-title":"Kauppatavarana terveys - selviydy terveysv\u00e4itteiden viidakossa","author":"Knuuti","year":"2020"},{"issue":"11","key":"10.1016\/j.cognition.2026.106598_bb0195","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1741","DOI":"10.1016\/j.neuron.2024.04.008","article-title":"Neural mechanisms of information seeking","volume":"112","author":"Kobayashi","year":"2024","journal-title":"Neuron"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.cognition.2026.106598_bb0200","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"490","DOI":"10.1016\/j.neuroimage.2018.07.038","article-title":"From relief to surprise: Dual control of epistemic curiosity in the human brain","volume":"181","author":"Ligneul","year":"2018","journal-title":"NeuroImage"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.cognition.2026.106598_bb0205","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1585","DOI":"10.1016\/j.paid.2008.01.014","article-title":"Interest and deprivation factors of epistemic curiosity","volume":"44","author":"Litman","year":"2008","journal-title":"Personality and Individual Differences"},{"issue":"4","key":"10.1016\/j.cognition.2026.106598_bb0210","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"559","DOI":"10.1080\/02699930441000427","article-title":"Epistemic curiosity, feeling-of-knowing, and exploratory behaviour","volume":"19","author":"Litman","year":"2005","journal-title":"Cognition & Emotion"},{"issue":"1","key":"10.1016\/j.cognition.2026.106598_bb0215","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"75","DOI":"10.1207\/S15327752JPA8001_16","article-title":"Measuring epistemic curiosity and its diversive and specific components","volume":"80","author":"Litman","year":"2003","journal-title":"Journal of Personality Assessment"},{"issue":"1","key":"10.1016\/j.cognition.2026.106598_bb0220","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"75","DOI":"10.1037\/0033-2909.116.1.75","article-title":"The psychology of curiosity: A review and reinterpretation","volume":"116","author":"Loewenstein","year":"1994","journal-title":"Psychological Bulletin"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.cognition.2026.106598_bb0225","author":"L\u00fcdecke"},{"issue":"60","key":"10.1016\/j.cognition.2026.106598_bb0230","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"3139","DOI":"10.21105\/joss.03139","article-title":"performance: An R Package for Assessment, Comparison and Testing of Statistical Models","volume":"6","author":"L\u00fcdecke","year":"2021","journal-title":"The Journal of Open Source Software"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.cognition.2026.106598_bb0235","series-title":"Third International Conference on Dependency Linguistics (Depling 2015), Uppsala, Sweden","article-title":"Towards Universal Web Parsebanks","author":"Luotolahti","year":"2015"},{"issue":"3","key":"10.1016\/j.cognition.2026.106598_bb0240","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"327","DOI":"10.1038\/s41562-020-00985-7","article-title":"Hunters, busybodies and the knowledge network building associated with deprivation curiosity","volume":"5","author":"Lydon-Staley","year":"2021","journal-title":"Nature Human Behavior"},{"issue":"8","key":"10.1016\/j.cognition.2026.106598_bb0245","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1400","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1530-0277.2010.01223.x","article-title":"Changes in sensation seeking and risk-taking propensity predict increases in alcohol use among early adolescents","volume":"34","author":"MacPherson","year":"2010","journal-title":"Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.cognition.2026.106598_bb0250","series-title":"International Handbook of Emotions in Education","first-page":"228","article-title":"Curiosity","author":"Markey","year":"2014"},{"issue":"3","key":"10.1016\/j.cognition.2026.106598_bb0255","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"266","DOI":"10.1037\/xge0000140","article-title":"Curiosity and reward: Valence predicts choice and information prediction errors enhance learning","volume":"145","author":"Marvin","year":"2016","journal-title":"Journal of Experimental Psychology: General"},{"issue":"3","key":"10.1016\/j.cognition.2026.106598_bb0260","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"191","DOI":"10.1037\/dec0000033","article-title":"Unpacking the exploration\u2013exploitation tradeoff: A synthesis of human and animal literatures","volume":"2","author":"Mehlhorn","year":"2015","journal-title":"Decision"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.cognition.2026.106598_bb0265","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"40","DOI":"10.1016\/j.cobeha.2020.06.007","article-title":"Epistemic curiosity and the region of proximal learning","volume":"35","author":"Metcalfe","year":"2020","journal-title":"Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences"},{"issue":"1","key":"10.1016\/j.cognition.2026.106598_bb0270","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"175","DOI":"10.1037\/rev0000349","article-title":"A Reward-learning framework of knowledge acquisition: An Integrated account of curiosity, interest, and intrinsic\u2013extrinsic rewards","volume":"129","author":"Murayama","year":"2022","journal-title":"Psychological Review"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.cognition.2026.106598_bb0275","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"905","DOI":"10.1007\/s10648-019-09512-1","article-title":"The murky distinction between curiosity and interest: State of the art and future prospects","volume":"31","author":"Pekrun","year":"2019","journal-title":"Educational Psychology Review"},{"issue":"3","key":"10.1016\/j.cognition.2026.106598_bb0280","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"372","DOI":"10.1037\/0033-2909.124.3.372","article-title":"Eye movements in reading and information processing: 20 years of research","volume":"124","author":"Rayner","year":"1998","journal-title":"Psychological Bulletin"},{"issue":"8","key":"10.1016\/j.cognition.2026.106598_bb0285","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1457","DOI":"10.1080\/17470210902816461","article-title":"Eye movements and attention in reading, scene perception, and visual search","volume":"62","author":"Rayner","year":"2009","journal-title":"The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology"},{"issue":"9","key":"10.1016\/j.cognition.2026.106598_bb0290","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1300","DOI":"10.1177\/0956797610378686","article-title":"Eye movements during mindless reading","volume":"21","author":"Reichle","year":"2010","journal-title":"Psychological Science"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.cognition.2026.106598_bb0295","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"86","DOI":"10.1016\/j.cognition.2011.08.014","article-title":"Curious eyes: Individual differences in personality predict eye movement behavior in scene-viewing","volume":"122","author":"Risko","year":"2012","journal-title":"Cognition"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.cognition.2026.106598_bb0300","series-title":"Appraisal processes in emotion\u202f: Theory, methods, research","first-page":"92","article-title":"Appraisal considered as a process of multi-level sequential checking","author":"Scherer","year":"2001"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.cognition.2026.106598_bb0305","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","DOI":"10.1037\/xap0000568","article-title":"From clicks to curiosity: Exploring self-directed information seeking as a behavioral manifestation of curiosity","author":"Schumacher","year":"2026","journal-title":"Journal of Experimental Psychology. Applied"},{"issue":"1","key":"10.1016\/j.cognition.2026.106598_bb0310","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"94","DOI":"10.1080\/02699930701298481","article-title":"Appraisal components and emotion traits: Examining the appraisal basis of trait curiosity","volume":"22","author":"Silvia","year":"2008","journal-title":"Cognition and Emotion"},{"issue":"2","key":"10.1016\/j.cognition.2026.106598_bb0315","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"75","DOI":"10.1037\/a0017081","article-title":"Confusion and interest: The role of knowledge emotions in aesthetic experience","volume":"4","author":"Silvia","year":"2010","journal-title":"Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.cognition.2026.106598_bb0320","author":"Simola"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.cognition.2026.106598_bb0325","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"487","DOI":"10.1146\/annurev-psych-010814-015331","article-title":"The science of mind wandering: Empirically navigating the stream of consciousness","volume":"66","author":"Smallwood","year":"2015","journal-title":"Annual Review of Psychology"},{"issue":"5","key":"10.1016\/j.cognition.2026.106598_bb0330","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"419","DOI":"10.1177\/09637214221105051","article-title":"Chasing unknown bandits: Uncertainty guidance in learning and decision making","volume":"31","author":"Speekenbrink","year":"2022","journal-title":"Current Directions in Psychological Science"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.cognition.2026.106598_bb0335","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"168","DOI":"10.1016\/j.jmp.2008.11.002","article-title":"A Bayesian analysis of human decision-making on bandit problems","volume":"53","author":"Steyvers","year":"2009","journal-title":"Journal of Mathematical Psychology"},{"issue":"10","key":"10.1016\/j.cognition.2026.106598_bb0340","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1878","DOI":"10.1037\/xge0000749","article-title":"It\u2019s new, but is it good? How generalization and uncertainty guide the exploration of novel options","volume":"149","author":"Stojic","year":"2020","journal-title":"Journal of Experimental Psychology: General"},{"issue":"1","key":"10.1016\/j.cognition.2026.106598_bb0345","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"5972","DOI":"10.1038\/s41467-021-26196-w","article-title":"Humans monitor learning progress in curiosity-driven exploration","volume":"12","author":"Ten","year":"2021","journal-title":"Nature Communications"},{"issue":"3","key":"10.1016\/j.cognition.2026.106598_bb0350","first-page":"832","article-title":"Mind wandering and reading comprehension: Examining the roles of working memory capacity, interest, motivation, and topic experience","volume":"39","author":"Unsworth","year":"2013","journal-title":"Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition"},{"issue":"4","key":"10.1016\/j.cognition.2026.106598_bb0355","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"625","DOI":"10.1037\/emo0000578","article-title":"Surprised\u2013curious\u2013confused: Epistemic emotions and knowledge exploration","volume":"20","author":"Vogl","year":"2020","journal-title":"Emotion"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.cognition.2026.106598_bb0360","series-title":"ggplot2: Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis","author":"Wickham","year":"2016"},{"issue":"6","key":"10.1016\/j.cognition.2026.106598_bb0365","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"2074","DOI":"10.1037\/a0038199","article-title":"Humans use directed and random exploration to solve the explore\u2013exploit dilemma","volume":"143","author":"Wilson","year":"2014","journal-title":"Journal of Experimental Psychology: General"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.cognition.2026.106598_bb0370","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"915","DOI":"10.1038\/s41562-018-0467-4","article-title":"Generalization guides human exploration in vast decision spaces","volume":"2","author":"Wu","year":"2018","journal-title":"Nature Human Behavior"}],"container-title":["Cognition"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/api.elsevier.com\/content\/article\/PII:S0010027726001654?httpAccept=text\/xml","content-type":"text\/xml","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"https:\/\/api.elsevier.com\/content\/article\/PII:S0010027726001654?httpAccept=text\/plain","content-type":"text\/plain","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2026,7,3]],"date-time":"2026-07-03T17:07:43Z","timestamp":1783098463000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/linkinghub.elsevier.com\/retrieve\/pii\/S0010027726001654"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2026,9]]},"references-count":74,"alternative-id":["S0010027726001654"],"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.cognition.2026.106598","relation":{},"ISSN":["0010-0277"],"issn-type":[{"value":"0010-0277","type":"print"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2026,9]]},"assertion":[{"value":"Elsevier","name":"publisher","label":"This article is maintained by"},{"value":"Curiosity and evidence quality affect information seeking and eye movements during reading","name":"articletitle","label":"Article Title"},{"value":"Cognition","name":"journaltitle","label":"Journal Title"},{"value":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.cognition.2026.106598","name":"articlelink","label":"CrossRef DOI link to publisher maintained version"},{"value":"article","name":"content_type","label":"Content Type"},{"value":"\u00a9 2026 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.","name":"copyright","label":"Copyright"}],"article-number":"106598"}}