Special issue: Remembering with Others

Remembering with Others: Conversational Dynamics and Mnemonic Outcomes

Editors: Lucas Bietti & Charles Stone

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17568765/2019/11/4

Editors’ Introduction: Remembering With Others: Conversational Dynamics and Mnemonic Outcomes

Lucas M. Bietti & Charles B. Stone

Pages: 592-608 [OA] https://doi.org/10.1111/tops.12443

Memory at the Sharp End: The Costs of Remembering With Others in Forensic Contexts

Lorraine Hope & Fiona Gabbert

Pages: 609-626.https://doi.org/10.1111/tops.12357

The Mnemonic Consequences of Jurors’ Selective Retrieval During Deliberation

Alexander C. V. Jay, Charles B. Stone, Robert Meksin, Clinton Merck, Natalie S. Gordon & William Hirst

Pages: 627-643. https://doi.org/10.1111/tops.12435

Communication in Theory and Research on Transactive Memory Systems: A Literature Review.

Vesa Peltokorpi & Anthony C. Hood

Pages: 644-667. https://doi.org/10.1111/tops.12359

Features of Successful and Unsuccessful Collaborative Memory Conversations in Long‐Married Couples.

Celia B. Harris, Amanda J. Barnier, John Sutton & Greg Savage

Pages: 668-686.  https://doi.org/10.1111/tops.12350

Social Transmission of False Memory in Small Groups and Large Networks

Raeya Maswood & Suparna Rajaram

Pages: 687-709. https://doi.org/10.1111/tops.12348

Storytelling as Adaptive Collective Sensemaking  

Lucas M. Bietti, Ottilie Tilston & Adrian Bangerter

Pages: 710-732 [OA]. https://doi.org/10.1111/tops.12358

Collaborative Remembering in Conversational Narration

Neal R. Norrick

Pages: 733-751.  https://doi.org/10.1111/tops.12378

Functions of Parental Intergenerational Narratives Told by Young People

Natalie Merrill, Jordan A. Booker & Robyn Fivush

Pages: 752-773.  https://doi.org/10.1111/tops.12356

From Conversations to Digital Communication: The Mnemonic Consequences of Consuming and Producing Information via Social Media

Charles B. Stone & Qi Wang

Pages: 774-793. https://doi.org/10.1111/tops.12369

The Social Function of Autobiographical Stories in the Personal and Virtual World: An Initial Investigation

Nicole Alea, Susan Bluck, Emily L. Mroz & Zanique Edwards

Pages: 794-810. https://doi.org/10.1111/tops.12370

An Evolutionary Approach to the Study of Collaborative Remembering?

Federica Amici

Pages: 811-816. https://doi.org/10.1111/tops.12398

Reflections and Comments on Research on Memory and Conversation From an Ethnographic Perspective

Nils Dahlbäck, Mattias Forsblad & Lars‐Christer Hydén

Pages: 817-820. https://doi.org/10.1111/tops.12399

Memory, Narrative, and the Consequences

Jens Brockmeier

Pages: 821-824. https://doi.org/10.1111/tops.12412

Knowing, Remembering, and Relating to Others Online: A Commentary

Michael J. Baker & Françoise Détienne

Pages: 825-830.  https://doi.org/10.1111/tops.12423

Reflections on Conversations and Memory

Travis G. Cyr & William Hirst

Pages: 831-837. https://doi.org/10.1111/tops.12437

Cultural transmission in a food preparation task: The role of interactivity, innovation and storytelling

Bietti LM, Bangerter A, Knutsen D, Mayor E (2019) Cultural transmission in a food preparation task: The role of interactivity, innovation and storytelling. PLoS ONE 14(9): e0221278. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0221278

Abstract

Interactive conversation drives the transmission of cultural information in small groups and large networks. In formal (e.g. schools) and informal (e.g. home) learning settings, interactivity does not only allow individuals and groups to faithfully transmit and learn new knowledge and skills, but also to boost cumulative cultural evolution. Here we investigate how interactivity affects performance, teaching, learning, innovation and chosen diffusion mode (e.g. instructional discourse vs. storytelling) of previously acquired information in a transmission chain experiment. In our experiment, participants (n = 288) working in 48 chains with three generations of pairs had to learn and complete a collaborative food preparation task (ravioli-making), and then transmit their experience to a new generation of participants in an interactive and non-interactive condition. Food preparation is a real-world task that it is taught and learned across cultures and transmitted over generations in families and groups. Pairs were defined as teachers or learners depending on their role in the transmission chain. The number of good exemplars of ravioli each pair produced was taken as measurement of performance. Contrary to our expectations, the results did not reveal that (1) performance increased over generations or that (2) interactivity in transmission sessions promoted increased performance. However, the results showed that (3) interactivity promoted the transmission of more information from teachers to learners; (4) increased quantity of information transmission from teachers led to higher performance in learners; (5) higher performance generations introduced more innovations in transmission sessions; (6) learners applied those transmitted innovations to their performance which made them persist over generations; (7) storytelling was specialized for the transmission of non-routine, unexpected information. Our findings offer new insights on how interactivity, innovation and storytelling affect the cultural transmission of complex collaborative tasks.

Editors’ Introduction: Remembering with others: Conversational dynamics and mnemonic outcomes

Bietti, L.M & Stone. C.B. (2019). Editors' Introduction: Remembering with others: Conversational dynamics and mnemonic outcomes. TopiCS in Cognitive Science. https://doi.org/10.1111/tops.12443

Abstract

Remembering the past through conversations with others is a uniquely human endeavor. Conversational remembering consists of specific dynamics and can lead to mnemonic outcomes. While conversational dynamics refer to the interactive processes (e.g., the roles speakers and listeners may undertake during the conversation) shaping collaborative remembering, conversational outcomes are about the mnemonic and functional consequences (e.g., forging social bonds) of those processes. Thus, the aim of the present article is to introduce the reader to key concepts and paradigms that have been rigorously developed to empirically investigate the dynamics and outcomes of conversational remembering in cognitive research. The collected review and empirical articles gathered in this topic provide the state‐of‐the‐art in the field.

Our work on the adaptive functions of storytelling featured in the French magazine 'Cerveau & Psycho'

Our work on the adaptive functions of storytelling has been featured in the French magazine Cerveau & Psycho. 

You can read the article for free here

And it is based on our open access research article published in TopiCS in Cognitive Science last year: 

Bietti, L.M., Tilston, O., & Bangerter, A. (2018). Storytelling as adaptive collective sensemaking. TopiCS in Cognitive Science.  https://doi.org/10.1111/tops.12358