Ellen O'Donoghue
eodonoghue.bsky.social
Ellen O'Donoghue
@eodonoghue.bsky.social
Postdoc in the Motivation & Memory Lab at CUBRIC, Cardiff University. I study how we flexibly learn about our environments, with particular interest in curiosity-driven exploration.
We had a smooth preregistration experience through
@pci-regreports.bsky.social & would definitely recommend the platform. Really appreciated the reviewers' comments & the transparency across all stages of the process.
February 7, 2025 at 2:19 PM
This project is a direct follow-up to @danlucen.bsky.social, Eva Teichert, @cjhodgetts.bsky.social, and @mjgruber.bsky.social's recent paper, which found that curiosity facilitates exploration within & memory for virtual environments:
Curiosity shapes spatial exploration and cognitive map formation in humans - Communications Psychology
Across two studies using desktop VR, curiosity determined how much humans explored and how well the hand-drawn spatial maps they acquired corresponded to the rooms
www.nature.com
February 7, 2025 at 2:19 PM