Monkeys voluntarily spent long periods playing a touchscreen video game for a new study, driven purely by curiosity without ...

Monkeys played a touchscreen game for nearly 100 rounds without rewards, highlighting the powerful role of curiosity in ...

Unrewarded persistence: Japanese macaques played nearly 100 rounds of a video game without food rewards, surprising researchers. Curiosity's sweet spot: Monkeys preferred medium unpredictability in ...

The intrinsic information-seeking impulse we call curiosity is independent of extrinsic rewards, such as food or mating ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It is always cute to see a monkey get up to some monkey business. Sometimes that monkey business involves one of these primates ...

Unusual gaming behaviour: Japanese macaques played a touchscreen game for up to 100 rounds with no food rewards, surprising researchers. Curiosity's sweet spot: Monkeys preferred moderate ...