Remembering and retelling stories in individual and collaborative contexts

Gagnon, Lisa; Dixon, Roger A.

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“…Basden et al, 2000;Congleton & Rajaram, 2010;Thorley & Dewhurst, 2007;Weldon & Bellinger, 1997;however, see Finlay et al, 2000). The benefits of past collaboration have been also observed in older adults (Gagnon & Dixon, 2008;Henkel & Rajaram, 2009) and on later individual tests of cued recall (B.H. Basden et al, 2000;Finlay et al, 2000) and recognition (B.H.…”

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Collaborative Memory: Cognitive Research and Theory

Rajaram

Pereira-Pasarin

2010

Perspect Psychol Sci

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People often form and retrieve memories in the company of others. Yet, nearly 125 years of cognitive research on learning and memory has mainly focused on individuals working in isolation. Although important topics such as eyewitness memory and autobiographical memory have evaluated social influences, a study of group memory has progressed mainly within the provinces of history, anthropology, sociology, and social psychology. In this context, the recent surge in research on the cognitive basis of collaborative memory marks an important conceptual departure. As a first aim, we review these empirical and theoretical advances on the nature and influence of collaborative memory. Effects of collaboration are counterintuitive because individuals remember less when recalling in groups. Collaboration can also lead to forgetting and increase memory errors. Conversely, collaboration can also improve memory under proper conditions. As a second aim, we propose an overarching theoretical framework that specifies the cognitive mechanisms associated with the costs and benefits of collaboration on memory. A study of the reciprocal influences of the group and the individual on memory processes naturally draws upon several disciplines. Our aim is to elucidate the cognitive components of this complex phenomenon and situate this analysis within a broader interdisciplinary perspective.

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Collaborative Memory: Cognitive Research and Theory

Rajaram

Pereira-Pasarin

2010

Perspect Psychol Sci

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“…Empirical evidence indeed suggests that collaborating dyads' performance is superior to that of individuals in memory tasks [4][5][6] .…”

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With a Little Help from My Spouse: Does Spousal Collaboration Compensate for the Effects of Cognitive Aging?

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Background: Collaborating with another person may help people compensate for aging-related losses in memory performance. However, collaborating in itself is effortful and draws upon individual cognitive resources. One factor that can facilitate collaboration, and decrease its resource requirements, is familiarity between interaction partners. Such facilitation should be particularly important when cognitive-mechanic resources are low. Objective: The current study was conducted to empirically test this theoretical notion. We hypothesized that cognitive aging should amplify the advantage of collaborating with a familiar partner over collaborating with an unfamiliar person. Methods: We developed an interpersonal cueing task based on the game Taboo^©. The task modeled an everyday-life situation in which one person cues another person to retrieve a piece of information from memory. Seventy-six younger adults (20–33 years) and 80 older adults (63–79 years) worked on this task once with their spouse and once with an unfamiliar cross-sex partner from the same age group. Collaborative performance was operationalized as the number of cue words needed until the partner guessed the target, as determined by independent trained coders. Performance in the Digit Symbol Substitution Test was used as an indicator of cognitive aging. Results: Multilevel-modeling analyses revealed that collaborating spouses outperformed collaborators who had not known each other before. This effect was comparable for both age groups but larger in persons with lower Digit Symbol scores. While participants with lower Digit Symbol scores generally performed worse in the collaborative task, they partly made up for this difference when working with the spouse. Conclusion: We conclude that spousal collaboration may offer a compensatory strategy to cope with individual aging-related losses.

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“…These include individuals, nominal units and age-varying groups [e.g. 4,8 ]. Third, the dynamic characteristics of dyads and other groups may be profitably investigated, over long periods longitudinally [5,6] , shorter periods with frequent assessments [3] and in investigations of the microprocesses of communication within single sessions [e.g.…”

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“…Several supportive but qualified illustrations of this phenomenon have appeared in the literature [e.g. 8,9 ]. In this section, I sketch selected definitions, the overall logic and key prevailing theoretical issues.…”

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“…stroke, head injury) and especially neurodegenerative disease (such as Alzheimer's disease). Lurking in the background for decades and increasingly evident in longitudinal research [25][26][27] is a third pattern: (c) trajectories that appear to represent long-term maintenance of competence or selective improvements [8,9,26] . Such maintenance may appear in several manifestations, including performance at levels not previously expected, decrements of a lower magnitude than typical, resilience as a function of support (e.g.…”

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Evaluating Everyday Competence in Older Adult Couples: Epidemiological Considerations

Dixon¹

2010

Gerontology

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Among older adults, everyday competence is often expressed in the context of other participating individuals. Although this active human context may be occasionally comprised of mere acquaintances, long-term partners (such as couples) often act as a unit in engaging in everyday actions or reporting on familiar domains. This special section reflects an important movement in aging research to examine couples as an alternative but normatively common unit of analysis. My discussion focuses on 2 main issues. First, I sketch the rationale, logic, expectation and evidence that long-term couples might develop and display unique advantages in everyday competence. Second, I explore the possibilities that epidemiological principles – thus far applied primarily to individual-level aging, decline and disease – may provide concepts or models for research on long-term changes in couple-level adaptation.

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Remembering and retelling stories in individual and collaborative contexts

Cited by 25 publications

References 40 publications

Collaborative Memory: Cognitive Research and Theory

Collaborative Memory: Cognitive Research and Theory

With a Little Help from My Spouse: Does Spousal Collaboration Compensate for the Effects of Cognitive Aging?

Evaluating Everyday Competence in Older Adult Couples: Epidemiological Considerations

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