Before revision: History In antiquity, the Roman philosopher Cicero wrote about our innate love of learning: In 1738, the Scottish philosopher David Hume differentiated intellectual curiosity from a more primitive form of curiosity: Later, in 1954, Berlyne differentiated it into perceptual curiosity and epistemic curiosity, and in 2004 a psychometric scale to assess epistemic and perceptual curiosity was developed.
After revision: History In antiquity, the Roman philosopher Cicero wrote about humans' innate love of learning: In 1738, the Scottish philosopher David Hume differentiated intellectual curiosity from a more primitive form of curiosity: Later, in 1954, Berlyne differentiated it into perceptual curiosity and epistemic curiosity, and in 2004 a psychometric scale to assess epistemic and perceptual curiosity was developed.