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Familiar Story Structures Possess an Evolutionary Edge in Memory

2025-07-05

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<p>Human beings demonstrate a universal impulse to share and consume stories. Over generations of transmission, within and across cultures, stories have evolved to develop regularities in their internal structures. Here, we investigated how two features of story structure – coherence and familiarity – impact recall as participants retold a story 5 days in a row. We predicted that familiar and coherent structures w...

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Literature Corpus work: 8744170c-8feb-59dd-87e2-9929ad1c619f
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/wp9x4_v3

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