Two new papers on infant curiosity

Elena Altmann, a formed PhD student, has published two of her papers this month on infant curiosity. Check them out:

News blog: https://portal.lancaster.ac.uk/portal/news/article/first-measure-of-infant-curiosity-as-an-early-trait-or-individual-difference

Altmann, E. C., Bazhydai, M., Karadağ, D., & Westermann, G. (2025). The Infant and Toddler Curiosity Questionnaire: A validated caregiver-report measure of curiosity in children from 5 to 24 months. Infancy. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/infa.70001?af=R

News blog: https://portal.lancaster.ac.uk/portal/news/article/exploring-baby-curiosity-lancaster-study-reveals-how-infants-actively-sample-new-information

Altmann, E. C., Bazhydai, M., Westermann, G. (2025). Curious Choices: Infants’ moment-to-moment information sampling is driven by their exploration history. Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2024.105976