ArticleBrain sciences2022
Curiosity Killed the Cat but Not Memory: Enhanced Performance in High-Curiosity States.
Article in Brain sciences, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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7 citing papers in PubMed.
- Exploring curiosity, interest, and surprise: normative ratings of a magic trick video dataset in Italy.Scientific data · 2026Article
- Curiosity in younger and older adults: the relationship between information value and memory.Frontiers in cognition · 2026Article
- The Magic Curiosity Arousing Tricks (MagicCATs) database in Italian younger and middle-aged adults: Descriptive statistics and rule-based machine learning.Behavior research methods · 2025Article
- A Curious Eye.Journal of Brown hospital medicine · 2025Article
- Systematic Curiosity as an Integrative Tool for Human Flourishing: A Conceptual Review and Framework.Integrative psychological & behavioral science · 2024Review
- The Role of Stimulus Uncertainty and Curiosity in Attention Control.Experimental psychology · 2024Article
- Novel Approaches to Memory and Aging: The Editorial.Brain sciences · 2023Article
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Abstract
Curiosity benefits memory for target information and may also benefit memory for incidental information presented during curiosity states. However, it is not known whether incidental curiosity-enhanced memory depends on or is affected by the valence of the incidental information during curiosity states. Here, older and younger participants incidentally encoded unrelated face images (positive, negative, and neutral) while they anticipated answers to trivia questions. We found memory enhancements for answers to trivia questions and unrelated faces presented during high-curiosity compared with low-curiosity states in both younger and older adults. Interestingly, face valence did not modify memory for unrelated faces. This suggests processes associated with the elicitation of curiosity enhance memory for incidental information instead of valence.
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