ReviewCognitive research: principles and implications2020
Uncertainty promotes information-seeking actions, but what information?
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- Understanding the Impact of Communicating Uncertainty About COVID-19 in the News: Randomized Between-Subjects Factorial Experiment.Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Trial
- A time-lagged psychological model of linguistic uncertainty, cognitive flexibility, and academic well-being among English major students.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Environment geometry alters sequential route learning and its integration into cognitive maps.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Social learning of emotion and its implication for memory: an ERP study.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Prevalence and predictors of artificial intelligence chatbots use for caregiving: Evidence from the Understanding America Study.PloS one · 2026Article
- Active information sampling in health and disease.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2025Review
- Quantitative dynamics of neural uncertainty in sensory processing and decision-making during discriminative learning.Experimental & molecular medicine · 2025Article
- The information gain of explicitly provided over self-generated contextual knowledge for behavioral control.PloS one · 2025Article
- Effects of the Uncertainty of Interpersonal Communications on Behavioral Responses of the Participants in an Immersive Virtual Reality Experience: A Usability Study.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- On the proposed role of metacognition in environment learning: recommendations for research.Cognitive research: principles and implications · 2022Review
- Sweet spot in music-Is predictability preferred among persons with psychotic-like experiences or autistic traits?PloS one · 2022Article
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- Exploring online search behavior for COVID-19 preventive measures: The Philippine case.PloS one · 2021Article
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Abstract
Navigating an unfamiliar city almost certainly brings out uncertainty about getting from place to place. This uncertainty, in turn, triggers information gathering. While navigational uncertainty is common, little is known about what type of information people seek when they are uncertain. The primary choices for information types with environments include landmarks (distal or local), landmark configurations (relation between two or more landmarks), and a distinct geometry, at least for some environments. Uncertainty could lead individuals to more likely seek one of these information types. Extant research informs both predictions about and empirical work exploring this question. This review covers relevant cognitive literature and then suggests empirical approaches to better understand information-seeking actions triggered by uncertainty. Notably, we propose that examining continuous navigation data can provide important insights into information seeking. Benefits of continuous data will be elaborated through one paradigm, spatial reorientation, which intentionally induces uncertainty through disorientation and cue conflict. While this and other methods have been used previously, data have primarily reflected only the final choice. Continuous behavior during a task can better reveal the cognition-action loop contributing to spatial learning and decision making.
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