{"id":606,"date":"2014-10-28T13:16:41","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T17:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/?p=606"},"modified":"2014-10-28T13:16:41","modified_gmt":"2014-10-28T17:16:41","slug":"creativity-breadcrumb-25-your-brain-on-curiosity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/2014\/10\/28\/creativity-breadcrumb-25-your-brain-on-curiosity\/","title":{"rendered":"Creativity Breadcrumb 25: Your Brain on Curiosity"},"content":{"rendered":"<script>fsg_json['fsg_post_606'] = [\n{id: 607, image: 'http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/files\/2014\/10\/your-brain-on-curiosity2_custom-13fe3369f114a09ed1703a471c366c336294995b-s40-c85.jpg', extlink: '', thumb: 'https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/files\/2014\/10\/your-brain-on-curiosity2_custom-13fe3369f114a09ed1703a471c366c336294995b-s40-c85-290x290.jpg', permalink: '<div class=\"galleria-layeritem\"><a title=\"Permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/2014\/10\/28\/creativity-breadcrumb-25-your-brain-on-curiosity\/your-brain-on-curiosity2_custom-13fe3369f114a09ed1703a471c366c336294995b-s40-c85\/#0\"><div class=\"galleria-link-bookmark\"><\/div><\/a><\/div>', layer: '<div class=\"galleria-infolayer\"><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\" style=\"padding-right: 20px;\"><h1>your-brain-on-curiosity2_custom-13fe3369f114a09ed1703a471c366c336294995b-s40-c85<\/h1><\/div><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\"><a title=\"Permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/2014\/10\/28\/creativity-breadcrumb-25-your-brain-on-curiosity\/your-brain-on-curiosity2_custom-13fe3369f114a09ed1703a471c366c336294995b-s40-c85\/#0\"><div class=\"galleria-link-bookmark\"><\/div><\/a><\/div><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\" style=\"padding-right: 20px;\"><\/div>'}\n];<\/script>\n<div id=\"attachment_607\" style=\"width: 639px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a data-postid=\"fsg_post_606\" data-imgid=\"607\" href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/files\/2014\/10\/your-brain-on-curiosity2_custom-13fe3369f114a09ed1703a471c366c336294995b-s40-c85.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-607\" class=\" wp-image-607\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/files\/2014\/10\/your-brain-on-curiosity2_custom-13fe3369f114a09ed1703a471c366c336294995b-s40-c85-1024x677.jpg\" alt=\"Courtesy NPR\" width=\"629\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/files\/2014\/10\/your-brain-on-curiosity2_custom-13fe3369f114a09ed1703a471c366c336294995b-s40-c85-1024x677.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/files\/2014\/10\/your-brain-on-curiosity2_custom-13fe3369f114a09ed1703a471c366c336294995b-s40-c85-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/files\/2014\/10\/your-brain-on-curiosity2_custom-13fe3369f114a09ed1703a471c366c336294995b-s40-c85.jpg 1120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 629px) 100vw, 629px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-607\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy NPR<\/p><\/div>\n<p>What piques your curiosity? New science suggests that <a title=\"Your Brain on Curiosity\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/ed\/2014\/10\/24\/357811146\/curiosity-it-may-have-killed-the-cat-but-it-helps-us-learn?utm_source=facebook.com&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=npr&amp;utm_term=nprnews&amp;utm_content=2051\" target=\"_blank\">curiosity helps us learn<\/a>, and not just because we might be more excited to learn about something that sparks our curiosity. So put your Limbic Reward System to work for you! If your job is to learn (hello college students), this research suggests that temporal\u00a0proximity between those subjects you&#8217;re curious about and those that excite you less can pay off &#8211; or, to use NPR&#8217;s example, you can even partner an episode of Breaking Bad with studying your least tempting material, and you might learn and retain what you learned more productively. 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