Bietti, L.M., Bangerter, A., &
Mayor, E. (2017). The interactive shaping of social learning in transmission chains. In G. Gunzelmann, A. Howes, T.
Tenbrink & E.Davelaar (Eds.), Proceedings
of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp.
1641-1646) Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Abstract
This study investigated the social
transmission of memories and skills collected from a collaborative cooking task
(ravioli-making) and across transmission chains. The transmission over three
generations of pairs of participants occurred under two conditions. In the
interactive condition, transmissions over generations occurred in face-to-face
conversations, whereas in the non-interactive condition, generations
video-recorded their instructions to the next generations. We analyzed the
effects of verbal and embodied features of informational transfer on task
performance. Our results show that performances improved over generations
regardless of interactivity. In the discussion we suggest that tools (like
cooking utensils) may have operated as cultural affordances encapsulating and
transmitting important cultural knowledge for the successful completion of the
task.
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