Autistic traits foster effective curiosity-driven exploration

• Francesco Poli ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: francesco.poli@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk

  Affiliations Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9841-0056

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• Maran Koolen,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands

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• Carlos A. Velázquez-Vargas,

  Roles Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

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• Jessica Ramos-Sanchez,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands

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• Marlene Meyer,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands

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• Rogier B. Mars,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands, Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain (FMRIB), Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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• Nanda Rommelse,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Developmental Psychology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands

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• Sabine Hunnius

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands

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