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Exploring to Learn and Learning to Explore

Hacques, Guillaume et al. “Exploring to learn and learning to explore.” Psychological research, 10.1007/s00426-020-01352-x. 10 May. 2020, doi:10.1007/s00426-020-01352-x

This review focuses on the contributions made by exploratory behaviors to skilled perception and action. 

Key Points

• Exploratory activities are those that generate information about the association between environmental factors and action capabilities.
• Exploration describes the active process by which individuals disclose information during control of action.
• In ecological psychology, information resides as patterns in ambient arrays (mechanical, acoustic, and optical).
  • These ambient arrays...