Reconstruction reveals complementary repairs

Cultural transmission depends on people passing ideas along, and this hypothesis asks which correction sequence best preserves meaning. It proposes that reconstruction, a person’s effort to rebuild source content, reveals repairs that are useful together. With equal integration time, correction followed by reconstruction may seem better than the reverse because people allocate attention to related repairs differently. A test would compare the two orders using matched source cards, then compare repair packages with individual targets. For complementary targets, package allocation predicts a smaller order gap; additive targets should show little interaction. Agenda timing, sleep-linked stabilization, and selection rules remain rival explanations.