好奇心的机制及作用

作为一种常见的心理状态和人格特质, 好奇心是认知心理学研究领域中的重要主题。大脑多个脑区的分工和协同作用, 使个体形成了产生与评估预测误差、触发与缓解好奇心以及产生惊奇与新预测误差的认知过程。这些认知过程能够减少对事物和环境的预测误差与信息差距, 消除对事物的不确定性。好奇心在个体终生发展过程中, 对促进认知功能, 保持心理和身体健康有积极的作用。未来研究可以从跨物种、跨学科和多领域交叉的角度切入, 推动好奇心主题研究的深入、研究手段的发展以及研究成果的应用。

The mechanism and function of curiosity

Curiosity has a long history of research and rich definitions and classifications as a common mental state and personality trait.The division and coordination of multiple brain regions enable individuals to form a cognitive process of generating and evaluating prediction error,triggering and mediating curiosity,and producing surprise and new prediction error,so as to reduce the prediction error and information gap between internal states and external environment,and eliminate uncertainty.Curiosity has a significant role in improving cognitive function and maintaining mental and physical health during development.Future research can be further considered from a cross-species,interdisciplinary,and multi-domain perspective to promote the deepening of research topics,the development of research methods,and the application of research results in curiosity.