Unpacking Discipline-Specific Curiosity and Knowledge Development

Can we capture what makes us curious? Where does our curiosity cross into confusion, or frustration? Can we place it? Might we experience it in one domain, but not another? These are the kinds of questions that animate the work of Emily Grossnickle Peterson, Ph.D., director of the Educational Neuroscience Lab at American University. Years after first meeting, we finally sat down to talk… Check out Dr. Emily Peterson’s Educational Neuroscience Lab:https://edspace.american.edu/edneurolab/ Theme music by Sean Balick; “A Burst of Light” by Delray, via Blue Dot Sessions.