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Transmission chain method
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<h2 id="application-in-studies-of-memory">Application in studies of memory</h2> <p>The transmission chain method is used to reveal what elements of a story the participants are most likely to <a href="/facts/Recall_(memory)/flxSh2qP">remember</a>, as well as how they transform the elements of the story.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> Bartlett's pioneering book, <i>Remembering</i> describes a series of studies of transmission of various material, from <a href="/facts/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States/lr8Qmd6N">Native American</a> <a href="/facts/Folk_tale/yGHtNeq4">folk tales</a> to descriptions of sporting events. From these he made two major inferences, corroborated by later studies: loss of the detail and dependence of the quality of remembering on the pre-existing knowledge. From these he inferred that remembering is a process of reconstruction of information, rather than of replication.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Isnad/2sb5HFc7">Isnad</a>, the transmission chain of narrators to authenticate a <i><a href="/facts/Hadith/8aKKCttq">hadith</a></i></li> <li><a href="/facts/Euhemerism/QhH6NBya">Euhemerism</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Mesoudi, Alex; Whiten, Andrew (2008-11-12). "The multiple roles of cultural transmission experiments in understanding human cultural evolution". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 363 (1509): 3489–3501. doi:10.1098/rstb.2008.0129. ISSN 0962-8436. PMC 2607337. PMID 18801720. <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Whiten" target="_blank">/wiki/Andrew_Whiten</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Wolters, A. W. (July 1933). "Remembering: A Study in Experimental and Social Psychology. By F. C. Bartlett. (Cambridge University Press. 1932)". Philosophy. 8 (31): 374–376. doi:10.1017/s0031819100033143. ISSN 0031-8191. S2CID 145357365. (book review) <a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0031819100033143" target="_blank">https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0031819100033143</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Mesoudi, Alex; Whiten, Andrew (2008-11-12). "The multiple roles of cultural transmission experiments in understanding human cultural evolution". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 363 (1509): 3489–3501. doi:10.1098/rstb.2008.0129. ISSN 0962-8436. PMC 2607337. PMID 18801720. <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Whiten" target="_blank">/wiki/Andrew_Whiten</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Miton, Helena; Claidière, Nicolas; Mercier, Hugo (July 2015). "Universal cognitive mechanisms explain the cultural success of bloodletting". Evolution and Human Behavior. 36 (4): 303–312. Bibcode:2015EHumB..36..303M. doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2015.01.003. <a href="https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1090513815000136" target="_blank">https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1090513815000136</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Mesoudi, Alex; Whiten, Andrew (2008-11-12). "The multiple roles of cultural transmission experiments in understanding human cultural evolution". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 363 (1509): 3489–3501. doi:10.1098/rstb.2008.0129. ISSN 0962-8436. PMC 2607337. PMID 18801720. <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Whiten" target="_blank">/wiki/Andrew_Whiten</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>