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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Opin Behav Sci. 2020 Jul 17;38:1–7. doi: 10.1016/j.cobeha.2020.06.003

Figure 2.

Figure 2.

Monkey in a tree, illustrating the problem of derailment in curiosity research. The monkey must learn foraging strategy through trial and error, which requires a highly variable exploration of the environment. But getting to the end of a branch is somewhat risky and requires suppressing stochastic variability. To successfully deploy curiosity the monkey must have a cognitive map of where variability is good and where it is bad.