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Find genuinely new, falsifiable hypotheses in empirical memetics and recommend the most promising theories and experiments. Interpret memetics as the transmission, transformation, competition and persistence of cultural information, including internet memes, narratives and cultural practices. Produce a research agenda, not a campaign to manipulate people. Identify the unresolved mechanisms using cultural evolution, cognitive science, network science, information theory and computational social science, including changes introduced by recommendation algorithms and generative AI. Distinguish established theories from new conjectures and check whether each proposed mechanism is already known under another name. Prioritize approximately five hypothesis families by substantive scientific novelty, explanatory power, discriminating testability, feasibility and expected information gain; rank the best first experiment. For each shortlisted theory give an operational definition of the transmitted unit, a causal mechanism or formal model, plausible competing explanations, contrasting quantitative predictions, a decisive experiment with manipulations and controls, measurable primary outcomes, power-analysis inputs rather than invented sample-size precision, major confounds and a result that would falsify the theory. Separate reach, copying fidelity, semantic change, adoption and persistence. Include both an affordable initial experiment and the stronger validation needed for a general claim. Assess what existing primary evidence actually establishes; do not call plausible extensions proven discoveries. User request in Russian: «хочу найти новые гипотезы в сфере меметиков; предложи самые перспективные эксперименты и теории». Return published question and hypothesis pages, complete Russian versions and English originals, with poster sheets.

Which order of correction and retelling best preserves meaning?

The question as the research states itWhich correction and retelling order preserves meaning beyond expected losses, depends on retained information, and outlasts correction?

When people pass material on, later versions can carry different meanings from earlier versions. Under the mechanism contemplated by the question, a correction supplies information from a reference, and a person's retelling determines which corrected and remembered elements enter the next version.

The whole reason

If the order changes what survives, judging a correction only by an immediate change in belief could miss its consequences for later transmission. If any advantage disappears when correction stops, treating it as lasting preservation would mistake continued external support for persistence of the meaning itself. Conversely, if ordinary fixed changes at each step explain the result, attributing the advantage to an additional memory-dependent process would overstate what has been learned.

The question in full

The question concerns how the meaning of a story, message, or cultural practice survives when people retell it and receive corrections checked against an original or other specified reference. It asks whether correction before retelling works differently from correction after retelling, and whether either order preserves meaning better than a model that assumes each transmission step changes information in a fixed way would predict. It also asks which parts of the earlier material must remain available in memory for correction to help, and whether the advantage continues once corrections stop. The question appears to assume that such an extra advantage and a necessary memory condition exist; the supplied sources do not establish either assumption.

Competing hypotheses

These hypotheses propose different mechanisms. Comparing their predictions helps identify observations that could distinguish them.

  1. 01Accurate correction may close the speaking agenda and cause cultural omissionsAfter accurate correction, speakers may know a relation yet omit it for an uninformed recipient; opening an answer-free agenda beforehand may prevent this. Reject a distinct mechanism if ordinary audience-design and retrieval models predict the whole interaction.
  2. 02Reconstruction may improve correction by revealing which repairs are useful togetherIn human cultural transmission, reconstruction may reveal jointly useful repairs, so allocating correction time to packages could remove an order advantage. Reject this explanation if bids fail to predict allocation or matched allocation leaves a repeatable agenda-, sleep- or selection-rule effect.
  3. 03Sleep may favor correction after reconstruction by stabilizing source-role bindingsReconstruction followed by correction may preserve source relations if sleep stabilizes the corrected episode; cueing a conflicting episode may reverse the advantage. Reject a distinct mechanism if only a general sleep benefit appears or standard replay models predict the full contrast.
  4. 04Correction order may bias later rule meanings through beliefs about why examples were chosenIn invented narrative worlds, correction order may carry inferred example-selection policies into new rule judgments despite equal fact recall. Reject an extra-history mechanism if ordinary sampling-based inference fully predicts the errors; a verified policy reset should make the excess effect negligible.
Each entry represents a published hypothesis. Where no hypotheses are published yet, the entries show possible answers to the scientific question.

What results would tell us about the hypotheses

Choose a possible result to see which hypothesis it would support, what the alternatives predict, and what would need to be tested next.

If we observe
Randomize source-equivalent correction versus restudy, C-R versus R-C, and a content-free outgoing-question agenda opened before versus after C. The agenda lists only which already-present relation must be conveyed; it does not supply its answer. Give an explicit new-recipient ignorance cue in every cell, match overt retrieval and elapsed time, and assess source knowledge on an independent unit set to avoid rehearsal contamination. Define D_A as the C-R minus R-C omission difference. The candidate predicts D_A>delta with no pre-opened agenda, but |D_A|<epsilon when the same agenda is opened before C; opening it only after C fails to rescue within the prespecified interval. Crucially, the correction arm has equal or higher private source accuracy but lower source-specific receiver accuracy. The correction-by-agenda interaction remains after matching trial-level attention, source-memory discrimination, total message length and ordinary given/new status. Uniform correction-time allocation, unchanged source-selection rules and a no-sleep immediate session do not remove it. Subsequent human-only descendants retain the between-lineage semantic advantage over a pilot-defined horizon; exact-artifact yoking abolishes predecessor-history differences. An absence of agenda timing specificity with a selective bundle-allocation effect favors another hypothesis of the same gap; a sleep-stage/cue reversal favors another hypothesis of the same gap; an explicit sampling-rule reversal favors another hypothesis of the same gap. If ordinary audience-design/retrieval models already predict the whole interaction, remove the new-family claim even if the best schedule remains R-C. Hypothetical result
Would support the hypothesis
Accurate correction may close the speaking agenda and cause cultural omissions — After accurate correction, speakers may know a relation yet omit it for an uninformed recipient; opening an answer-free agenda beforehand may prevent this. Reject a distinct mechanism if ordinary audience-design and retrieval models predict the whole interaction.
Other hypotheses predict
  • Reconstruction may improve correction by revealing which repairs are useful together — Cross C-R versus R-C with package-versus-separate-target allocation of an equal integration-time budget; everyone sees the same source cards for the same total time and completes the same number of model calls. Include targets whose experimentally defined functional value is additive and targets whose joint correction is complementary, while keeping the proposition rubric fixed. Estimate each participant's complementarity from incentive-compatible choices on independent calibration units. Let D_B be the R-C minus C-R source-specific functional accuracy gap. Predict D_B>delta under separate-target allocation for complementary relations, with a smaller |D_B| under package allocation; the package interaction is near zero for additive units. Manipulating retained relational identity changes measured bundle complementarity and predicts this interaction before seeing the final outcomes. The decisive replay control randomly yokes the exact per-target attention schedule and correction content from package winners to recipients who never bid: the auction-label effect and any unexplained order advantage should fall within epsilon once this allocation path is fixed. Agenda timing, sleep stage and evidence-sampling labels do not produce independent effects in the allocation-only model. Continued advantage after withdrawal must be predicted from what was actually corrected, not from the presence of old prices. If bids fail to forecast repair allocation, or fixed allocation leaves a reproducible agenda-, sleep-, or selection-rule-specific residual, reject this mechanism as the sufficient explanation in favor of the appropriate rival.
  • Sleep may favor correction after reconstruction by stabilizing source-role bindings — Independently tag source-relation encoding and the human reconstruction episode with counterbalanced nonsemantic cues. Cross C-R versus R-C with a matched nap/quiet-rest interval, then, in the physiological validation, deliver source-episode versus reconstruction-episode cues during verified slow-wave sleep, with sham and waking-cue controls. Hold clock time, interference, cue count, arousal and source information constant or explicitly counterbalance them. Define D_S as the post-interval R-C minus C-R probability of preserving the arbitrary source relation, subtracting each schedule's immediate baseline on independent items. Predict a stage-by-cue-by-order interaction exceeding delta: stabilizing a correctable source-bound episode benefits R-C, whereas selectively stabilizing a conflicting reconstruction reduces or reverses that advantage. The corresponding effect is weaker than delta in waking/sham controls under this candidate's stated scope. Entity-only retention weakens the interaction despite matched recognition. One-step kernels estimated separately for sleep and wake plus standard retrieval, spacing and targeted-memory-reactivation effects are the nearest strong rival; an extra order-by-binding state must improve held-out prediction beyond them. If only a nonspecific sleep main effect occurs, or a standard replay model already predicts the full contrast, remove the proposed distinct family. If awake agenda timing or package allocation predicts the advantage and verified stage-specific cueing adds no informative effect, prefer another hypothesis of the same gap or another hypothesis of the same gap. After withdrawal, test both original individuals and naive human chains; exact-message replay must eliminate inaccessible predecessor-sleep effects.
  • Correction order may bias later rule meanings through beliefs about why examples were chosen — Use invented narrative worlds with a general rule and explicitly indexed exceptions; correction supplies a true, partially diagnostic source example rather than simply spelling out the entire answer. Pilot that the example is understood and supports the prespecified source interpretation. Cross C-R/R-C with a transparent random-example selection rule versus error-triggered selection. Construct worlds where the exact observed corrective example has the same surface form and source truth under both sampling rules but different evidential relevance to the unsupplied generalization. Everyone receives the same number of source examples and equal time. Establish the ordinary sampling-conditioned response on independent one-step items. Then use new, exchangeable source units to test whether previously experienced correction order changes the inferred selection policy despite an explicitly reset current policy. Define D_Q as the order difference in a held-out scope-transfer error, with exact fact recall held equivalent. The candidate predicts D_Q changes sign between general-rule and genuine-exception worlds, and an experimentally verified policy reset reduces the excess order effect below epsilon. The extra-history term is required only if order-linked policy carryover predicts new-source errors beyond the known sampling-conditioned Bayesian baseline; a mere random-versus-selected example effect is established inference, not a new memetic result. Opening a communicative agenda cannot rescue the private scope error while leaving the selection interpretation unchanged; neither a bundle-allocation change nor a sleep cue has a necessary effect when its proposed state is clamped. Falsify in favor of another hypothesis of the same gap if only output omission changes with intact private scope, or in favor of another hypothesis of the same gap if only the physiological cue interaction remains after sampling comprehension is verified.
What to check next
Does placing correction checked against a reference before rather than after human retelling change how well cultural meaning survives, and does any difference exceed predictions based on fixed changes at each step?

These are hypothetical results. Selecting one shows what would follow from it; it does not confirm a hypothesis or change its assessment.

Comparing hypotheses

Compare the proposed mechanisms, the predictions that distinguish the hypotheses, and the observations that would count against each one.

01

Accurate correction may close the speaking agenda and cause cultural omissions

Communicative agenda closure
Proposed mechanism

After accurate correction, speakers may know a relation yet omit it for an uninformed recipient; opening an answer-free agenda beforehand may prevent this.

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HERETICAL CANDIDATE — Accurate correction can make an accurately informed person a systematically worse cultural transmitter by prematurely closing the agenda of what still needs to be said. The stored state is an unexpressed communicative plan, not a false factual belief, a right of authorship, or a demand to preserve one's own version. Human reconstruction first opens proposition-specific production slots; a later source correction can repair their contents while leaving them scheduled for expression. Correction first instead marks those relations as already settled before an outgoing message has been planned, so they are omitted even when the speaker privately knows them, knows that the new recipient does not know them, has enough time, and is paid for receiver comprehension. The strong, unconventional claim is correction-specific failure to reopen these slots after an explicit audience reset; ordinary audience design alone is the nearest rival. Let a_j be the independently manipulated presence of an outgoing slot for relation j before C, z_j indicate that j was corrected, and o_j indicate omission. A minimal extension is logit P(o_j=1)=alpha_j+beta z_j(1-a_j)+ordinary measured predictors, beta>0, while private source accuracy does not decrease. R-before-C should preserve meaning best when enough relational identity survives to attach correction to an existing slot; recognition of the entities alone is insufficient. The resulting more complete messages can preserve their advantage after withdrawal in new recipients, but no immaterial agenda is assumed to cross between minds. This mechanism stabilizes SPV_4 through production completeness and can improve semantic SPV_7 without improving verbatim copying.

What distinguishes its prediction

Randomize source-equivalent correction versus restudy, C-R versus R-C, and a content-free outgoing-question agenda opened before versus after C.

Full text

The agenda lists only which already-present relation must be conveyed; it does not supply its answer. Give an explicit new-recipient ignorance cue in every cell, match overt retrieval and elapsed time, and assess source knowledge on an independent unit set to avoid rehearsal contamination. Define D_A as the C-R minus R-C omission difference. The candidate predicts D_A>delta with no pre-opened agenda, but |D_A|<epsilon when the same agenda is opened before C; opening it only after C fails to rescue within the prespecified interval. Crucially, the correction arm has equal or higher private source accuracy but lower source-specific receiver accuracy. The correction-by-agenda interaction remains after matching trial-level attention, source-memory discrimination, total message length and ordinary given/new status. Uniform correction-time allocation, unchanged source-selection rules and a no-sleep immediate session do not remove it. Subsequent human-only descendants retain the between-lineage semantic advantage over a pilot-defined horizon; exact-artifact yoking abolishes predecessor-history differences. An absence of agenda timing specificity with a selective bundle-allocation effect favors IH_02; a sleep-stage/cue reversal favors IH_03; an explicit sampling-rule reversal favors IH_04. If ordinary audience-design/retrieval models already predict the whole interaction, remove the new-family claim even if the best schedule remains R-C.

What would weaken the hypothesis

Reconstruction may improve correction by revealing which repairs are useful together predicts instead: Cross C-R versus R-C with package-versus-separate-target allocation of an equal integration-time budget; everyone sees the same source cards for the same total time and completes the same number of model calls.

Full text

Include targets whose experimentally defined functional value is additive and targets whose joint correction is complementary, while keeping the proposition rubric fixed. Estimate each participant's complementarity from incentive-compatible choices on independent calibration units. Let D_B be the R-C minus C-R source-specific functional accuracy gap. Predict D_B>delta under separate-target allocation for complementary relations, with a smaller |D_B| under package allocation; the package interaction is near zero for additive units. Manipulating retained relational identity changes measured bundle complementarity and predicts this interaction before seeing the final outcomes. The decisive replay control randomly yokes the exact per-target attention schedule and correction content from package winners to recipients who never bid: the auction-label effect and any unexplained order advantage should fall within epsilon once this allocation path is fixed. Agenda timing, sleep stage and evidence-sampling labels do not produce independent effects in the allocation-only model. Continued advantage after withdrawal must be predicted from what was actually corrected, not from the presence of old prices. If bids fail to forecast repair allocation, or fixed allocation leaves a reproducible agenda-, sleep-, or selection-rule-specific residual, reject this mechanism as the sufficient explanation in favor of the appropriate rival.

Sleep may favor correction after reconstruction by stabilizing source-role bindings predicts instead: Independently tag source-relation encoding and the human reconstruction episode with counterbalanced nonsemantic cues. Cross C-R versus R-C with a matched nap/quiet-rest interval, then, in the physiological validation, deliver source-episode versus reconstruction-episode cues during verified slow-wave sleep, with sham and waking-cue controls. Hold clock time, interference, cue count, arousal and source information constant or explicitly counterbalance them. Define D_S as the post-interval R-C minus C-R probability of preserving the arbitrary source relation, subtracting each schedule's immediate baseline on independent items. Predict a stage-by-cue-by-order interaction exceeding delta: stabilizing a correctable source-bound episode benefits R-C, whereas selectively stabilizing a conflicting reconstruction reduces or reverses that advantage. The corresponding effect is weaker than delta in waking/sham controls under this candidate's stated scope. Entity-only retention weakens the interaction despite matched recognition. One-step kernels estimated separately for sleep and wake plus standard retrieval, spacing and targeted-memory-reactivation effects are the nearest strong rival; an extra order-by-binding state must improve held-out prediction beyond them. If only a nonspecific sleep main effect occurs, or a standard replay model already predicts the full contrast, remove the proposed distinct family. If awake agenda timing or package allocation predicts the advantage and verified stage-specific cueing adds no informative effect, prefer IH_01 or IH_02. After withdrawal, test both original individuals and naive human chains; exact-message replay must eliminate inaccessible predecessor-sleep effects.

Correction order may bias later rule meanings through beliefs about why examples were chosen predicts instead: Use invented narrative worlds with a general rule and explicitly indexed exceptions; correction supplies a true, partially diagnostic source example rather than simply spelling out the entire answer. Pilot that the example is understood and supports the prespecified source interpretation. Cross C-R/R-C with a transparent random-example selection rule versus error-triggered selection. Construct worlds where the exact observed corrective example has the same surface form and source truth under both sampling rules but different evidential relevance to the unsupplied generalization. Everyone receives the same number of source examples and equal time. Establish the ordinary sampling-conditioned response on independent one-step items. Then use new, exchangeable source units to test whether previously experienced correction order changes the inferred selection policy despite an explicitly reset current policy. Define D_Q as the order difference in a held-out scope-transfer error, with exact fact recall held equivalent. The candidate predicts D_Q changes sign between general-rule and genuine-exception worlds, and an experimentally verified policy reset reduces the excess order effect below epsilon. The extra-history term is required only if order-linked policy carryover predicts new-source errors beyond the known sampling-conditioned Bayesian baseline; a mere random-versus-selected example effect is established inference, not a new memetic result. Opening a communicative agenda cannot rescue the private scope error while leaving the selection interpretation unchanged; neither a bundle-allocation change nor a sleep cue has a necessary effect when its proposed state is clamped. Falsify in favor of IH_01 if only output omission changes with intact private scope, or in favor of IH_03 if only the physiological cue interaction remains after sampling comprehension is verified.

02

Reconstruction may improve correction by revealing which repairs are useful together

Complementary correction allocation
Proposed mechanism

In human cultural transmission, reconstruction may reveal jointly useful repairs, so allocating correction time to packages could remove an order advantage.

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CROSS-DOMAIN TRANSFER — Reconstruction changes the complementarity of attention invested in correcting different source relations. All source-grounded correction information is already available in both orders, but a human who has attempted reconstruction discovers which two repairs are jointly useful. When attention time is allocated by separate-target bids, the risk of paying for one unusable half of a repair pair discourages investment; package allocation can remove that exposure problem. The relevant history state is a revealed valuation over correction-time bundles, not depletion of a finite memory resource. R-before-C ordinarily helps because it reveals those complements before integration time is assigned. A source-grounded C-before-R schedule can match it if recipients already retain which roles must be repaired together and are allowed package allocation. The prerequisite is retained identification of complementary targets; knowing their names without the relation is insufficient. Correction withdrawal leaves a benefit only insofar as the previously allocated integration produces more usable transmitted content; a continued market or reminders must not be silently retained. This stabilizes SPV_4 by endogenous selection of integration effort and may preserve SPV_7. It is an established economic mechanism proposed as a rival explanation of a cultural interaction, not a discovered cultural law.

What distinguishes its prediction

Cross C-R versus R-C with package-versus-separate-target allocation of an equal integration-time budget; everyone sees the same source cards for the same total time and completes the same number of model calls.

Full text

Include targets whose experimentally defined functional value is additive and targets whose joint correction is complementary, while keeping the proposition rubric fixed. Estimate each participant's complementarity from incentive-compatible choices on independent calibration units. Let D_B be the R-C minus C-R source-specific functional accuracy gap. Predict D_B>delta under separate-target allocation for complementary relations, with a smaller |D_B| under package allocation; the package interaction is near zero for additive units. Manipulating retained relational identity changes measured bundle complementarity and predicts this interaction before seeing the final outcomes. The decisive replay control randomly yokes the exact per-target attention schedule and correction content from package winners to recipients who never bid: the auction-label effect and any unexplained order advantage should fall within epsilon once this allocation path is fixed. Agenda timing, sleep stage and evidence-sampling labels do not produce independent effects in the allocation-only model. Continued advantage after withdrawal must be predicted from what was actually corrected, not from the presence of old prices. If bids fail to forecast repair allocation, or fixed allocation leaves a reproducible agenda-, sleep-, or selection-rule-specific residual, reject this mechanism as the sufficient explanation in favor of the appropriate rival.

What would weaken the hypothesis

Accurate correction may close the speaking agenda and cause cultural omissions predicts instead: Randomize source-equivalent correction versus restudy, C-R versus R-C, and a content-free outgoing-question agenda opened before versus after C.

Full text

The agenda lists only which already-present relation must be conveyed; it does not supply its answer. Give an explicit new-recipient ignorance cue in every cell, match overt retrieval and elapsed time, and assess source knowledge on an independent unit set to avoid rehearsal contamination. Define D_A as the C-R minus R-C omission difference. The candidate predicts D_A>delta with no pre-opened agenda, but |D_A|<epsilon when the same agenda is opened before C; opening it only after C fails to rescue within the prespecified interval. Crucially, the correction arm has equal or higher private source accuracy but lower source-specific receiver accuracy. The correction-by-agenda interaction remains after matching trial-level attention, source-memory discrimination, total message length and ordinary given/new status. Uniform correction-time allocation, unchanged source-selection rules and a no-sleep immediate session do not remove it. Subsequent human-only descendants retain the between-lineage semantic advantage over a pilot-defined horizon; exact-artifact yoking abolishes predecessor-history differences. An absence of agenda timing specificity with a selective bundle-allocation effect favors IH_02; a sleep-stage/cue reversal favors IH_03; an explicit sampling-rule reversal favors IH_04. If ordinary audience-design/retrieval models already predict the whole interaction, remove the new-family claim even if the best schedule remains R-C.

Sleep may favor correction after reconstruction by stabilizing source-role bindings predicts instead: Independently tag source-relation encoding and the human reconstruction episode with counterbalanced nonsemantic cues. Cross C-R versus R-C with a matched nap/quiet-rest interval, then, in the physiological validation, deliver source-episode versus reconstruction-episode cues during verified slow-wave sleep, with sham and waking-cue controls. Hold clock time, interference, cue count, arousal and source information constant or explicitly counterbalance them. Define D_S as the post-interval R-C minus C-R probability of preserving the arbitrary source relation, subtracting each schedule's immediate baseline on independent items. Predict a stage-by-cue-by-order interaction exceeding delta: stabilizing a correctable source-bound episode benefits R-C, whereas selectively stabilizing a conflicting reconstruction reduces or reverses that advantage. The corresponding effect is weaker than delta in waking/sham controls under this candidate's stated scope. Entity-only retention weakens the interaction despite matched recognition. One-step kernels estimated separately for sleep and wake plus standard retrieval, spacing and targeted-memory-reactivation effects are the nearest strong rival; an extra order-by-binding state must improve held-out prediction beyond them. If only a nonspecific sleep main effect occurs, or a standard replay model already predicts the full contrast, remove the proposed distinct family. If awake agenda timing or package allocation predicts the advantage and verified stage-specific cueing adds no informative effect, prefer IH_01 or IH_02. After withdrawal, test both original individuals and naive human chains; exact-message replay must eliminate inaccessible predecessor-sleep effects.

Correction order may bias later rule meanings through beliefs about why examples were chosen predicts instead: Use invented narrative worlds with a general rule and explicitly indexed exceptions; correction supplies a true, partially diagnostic source example rather than simply spelling out the entire answer. Pilot that the example is understood and supports the prespecified source interpretation. Cross C-R/R-C with a transparent random-example selection rule versus error-triggered selection. Construct worlds where the exact observed corrective example has the same surface form and source truth under both sampling rules but different evidential relevance to the unsupplied generalization. Everyone receives the same number of source examples and equal time. Establish the ordinary sampling-conditioned response on independent one-step items. Then use new, exchangeable source units to test whether previously experienced correction order changes the inferred selection policy despite an explicitly reset current policy. Define D_Q as the order difference in a held-out scope-transfer error, with exact fact recall held equivalent. The candidate predicts D_Q changes sign between general-rule and genuine-exception worlds, and an experimentally verified policy reset reduces the excess order effect below epsilon. The extra-history term is required only if order-linked policy carryover predicts new-source errors beyond the known sampling-conditioned Bayesian baseline; a mere random-versus-selected example effect is established inference, not a new memetic result. Opening a communicative agenda cannot rescue the private scope error while leaving the selection interpretation unchanged; neither a bundle-allocation change nor a sleep cue has a necessary effect when its proposed state is clamped. Falsify in favor of IH_01 if only output omission changes with intact private scope, or in favor of IH_03 if only the physiological cue interaction remains after sampling comprehension is verified.

03

Sleep may favor correction after reconstruction by stabilizing source-role bindings

Sleep stage dependent episodic stabilization
Proposed mechanism

Reconstruction followed by correction may preserve source relations if sleep stabilizes the corrected episode; cueing a conflicting episode may reverse the advantage.

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SCOUT 1 — From experimental sleep physiology: an order advantage is set by which source-relation episode is stabilized during offline reactivation, not solely by the final waking interpretation. Reconstruction makes a particular role binding retrievable. A source-grounded correction immediately attached to that episode can replace its usable relation before sleep-dependent stabilization; correction presented before an incompatible reconstruction can instead leave the last reconstructed wrong relation preferentially stabilized. The required retained information is an episodic binding between the source's entities and their roles, not mere word recognition. The hypothesis therefore favors R-C before an informative offline interval, but predicts that selective reactivation of the competing episode can reverse the advantage. The candidate extra state is a experimentally tagged, physiologically gated episode available for stabilization; its tag is not a semantic correction and its effect cannot be inferred from a generic sleep benefit. It stabilizes SPV_4 in the original learners; source-free new recipients can benefit only through the messages those learners later produce. The new cultural conjecture is the order-by-episode-specific stabilization effect on source-specific descendant trajectories, not the existence of sleep consolidation, reactivation or reconsolidation.

What distinguishes its prediction

Independently tag source-relation encoding and the human reconstruction episode with counterbalanced nonsemantic cues.

Full text

Cross C-R versus R-C with a matched nap/quiet-rest interval, then, in the physiological validation, deliver source-episode versus reconstruction-episode cues during verified slow-wave sleep, with sham and waking-cue controls. Hold clock time, interference, cue count, arousal and source information constant or explicitly counterbalance them. Define D_S as the post-interval R-C minus C-R probability of preserving the arbitrary source relation, subtracting each schedule's immediate baseline on independent items. Predict a stage-by-cue-by-order interaction exceeding delta: stabilizing a correctable source-bound episode benefits R-C, whereas selectively stabilizing a conflicting reconstruction reduces or reverses that advantage. The corresponding effect is weaker than delta in waking/sham controls under this candidate's stated scope. Entity-only retention weakens the interaction despite matched recognition. One-step kernels estimated separately for sleep and wake plus standard retrieval, spacing and targeted-memory-reactivation effects are the nearest strong rival; an extra order-by-binding state must improve held-out prediction beyond them. If only a nonspecific sleep main effect occurs, or a standard replay model already predicts the full contrast, remove the proposed distinct family. If awake agenda timing or package allocation predicts the advantage and verified stage-specific cueing adds no informative effect, prefer IH_01 or IH_02. After withdrawal, test both original individuals and naive human chains; exact-message replay must eliminate inaccessible predecessor-sleep effects.

What would weaken the hypothesis

Accurate correction may close the speaking agenda and cause cultural omissions predicts instead: Randomize source-equivalent correction versus restudy, C-R versus R-C, and a content-free outgoing-question agenda opened before versus after C.

Full text

The agenda lists only which already-present relation must be conveyed; it does not supply its answer. Give an explicit new-recipient ignorance cue in every cell, match overt retrieval and elapsed time, and assess source knowledge on an independent unit set to avoid rehearsal contamination. Define D_A as the C-R minus R-C omission difference. The candidate predicts D_A>delta with no pre-opened agenda, but |D_A|<epsilon when the same agenda is opened before C; opening it only after C fails to rescue within the prespecified interval. Crucially, the correction arm has equal or higher private source accuracy but lower source-specific receiver accuracy. The correction-by-agenda interaction remains after matching trial-level attention, source-memory discrimination, total message length and ordinary given/new status. Uniform correction-time allocation, unchanged source-selection rules and a no-sleep immediate session do not remove it. Subsequent human-only descendants retain the between-lineage semantic advantage over a pilot-defined horizon; exact-artifact yoking abolishes predecessor-history differences. An absence of agenda timing specificity with a selective bundle-allocation effect favors IH_02; a sleep-stage/cue reversal favors IH_03; an explicit sampling-rule reversal favors IH_04. If ordinary audience-design/retrieval models already predict the whole interaction, remove the new-family claim even if the best schedule remains R-C.

Reconstruction may improve correction by revealing which repairs are useful together predicts instead: Cross C-R versus R-C with package-versus-separate-target allocation of an equal integration-time budget; everyone sees the same source cards for the same total time and completes the same number of model calls. Include targets whose experimentally defined functional value is additive and targets whose joint correction is complementary, while keeping the proposition rubric fixed. Estimate each participant's complementarity from incentive-compatible choices on independent calibration units. Let D_B be the R-C minus C-R source-specific functional accuracy gap. Predict D_B>delta under separate-target allocation for complementary relations, with a smaller |D_B| under package allocation; the package interaction is near zero for additive units. Manipulating retained relational identity changes measured bundle complementarity and predicts this interaction before seeing the final outcomes. The decisive replay control randomly yokes the exact per-target attention schedule and correction content from package winners to recipients who never bid: the auction-label effect and any unexplained order advantage should fall within epsilon once this allocation path is fixed. Agenda timing, sleep stage and evidence-sampling labels do not produce independent effects in the allocation-only model. Continued advantage after withdrawal must be predicted from what was actually corrected, not from the presence of old prices. If bids fail to forecast repair allocation, or fixed allocation leaves a reproducible agenda-, sleep-, or selection-rule-specific residual, reject this mechanism as the sufficient explanation in favor of the appropriate rival.

Correction order may bias later rule meanings through beliefs about why examples were chosen predicts instead: Use invented narrative worlds with a general rule and explicitly indexed exceptions; correction supplies a true, partially diagnostic source example rather than simply spelling out the entire answer. Pilot that the example is understood and supports the prespecified source interpretation. Cross C-R/R-C with a transparent random-example selection rule versus error-triggered selection. Construct worlds where the exact observed corrective example has the same surface form and source truth under both sampling rules but different evidential relevance to the unsupplied generalization. Everyone receives the same number of source examples and equal time. Establish the ordinary sampling-conditioned response on independent one-step items. Then use new, exchangeable source units to test whether previously experienced correction order changes the inferred selection policy despite an explicitly reset current policy. Define D_Q as the order difference in a held-out scope-transfer error, with exact fact recall held equivalent. The candidate predicts D_Q changes sign between general-rule and genuine-exception worlds, and an experimentally verified policy reset reduces the excess order effect below epsilon. The extra-history term is required only if order-linked policy carryover predicts new-source errors beyond the known sampling-conditioned Bayesian baseline; a mere random-versus-selected example effect is established inference, not a new memetic result. Opening a communicative agenda cannot rescue the private scope error while leaving the selection interpretation unchanged; neither a bundle-allocation change nor a sleep cue has a necessary effect when its proposed state is clamped. Falsify in favor of IH_01 if only output omission changes with intact private scope, or in favor of IH_03 if only the physiological cue interaction remains after sampling comprehension is verified.

04

Correction order may bias later rule meanings through beliefs about why examples were chosen

Ascertainment conditioned evidential generalization
Proposed mechanism

In invented narrative worlds, correction order may carry inferred example-selection policies into new rule judgments despite equal fact recall.

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SCOUT 2 — From statistical evidence evaluation and ascertainment: people preserve the literal corrective fact but learn the wrong scope of the cultural rule because correction is sampled conditional on their preceding reconstruction. R-C makes a supplied corrective example look like an error-selected exception; C-R can make the same example look like an ordinary draw from the source's rule. Reusing that inferred sampling policy across later propositions yields history dependence even when the current sentence and its remembered origin are identical. The retained prerequisite is the rule describing why this particular source-grounded example was selected and the contextual relation that defines its scope. It is not sufficient to remember who said it. The mechanism is inferential likelihood reweighting, not changing a network, information-routing barrier, proofreader or transmitter's agenda. It predicts that C-R is superior when the source intends a general relation but R-C induces an exceptional-case interpretation; the direction reverses when the original source genuinely describes a rare exception. Thus there is no universal best order. SPV_4 is stabilized by appropriate scope inference, with private functional application potentially changing despite equal literal recall. After correction withdrawal, a scope interpretation can continue through descendants' explicit conditional statements and choices; the hypothesis does not allow recovery of an omitted arbitrary rule without a documented information path.

What distinguishes its prediction

Use invented narrative worlds with a general rule and explicitly indexed exceptions; correction supplies a true, partially diagnostic source example rather than simply spelling out the entire answer.

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Pilot that the example is understood and supports the prespecified source interpretation. Cross C-R/R-C with a transparent random-example selection rule versus error-triggered selection. Construct worlds where the exact observed corrective example has the same surface form and source truth under both sampling rules but different evidential relevance to the unsupplied generalization. Everyone receives the same number of source examples and equal time. Establish the ordinary sampling-conditioned response on independent one-step items. Then use new, exchangeable source units to test whether previously experienced correction order changes the inferred selection policy despite an explicitly reset current policy. Define D_Q as the order difference in a held-out scope-transfer error, with exact fact recall held equivalent. The candidate predicts D_Q changes sign between general-rule and genuine-exception worlds, and an experimentally verified policy reset reduces the excess order effect below epsilon. The extra-history term is required only if order-linked policy carryover predicts new-source errors beyond the known sampling-conditioned Bayesian baseline; a mere random-versus-selected example effect is established inference, not a new memetic result. Opening a communicative agenda cannot rescue the private scope error while leaving the selection interpretation unchanged; neither a bundle-allocation change nor a sleep cue has a necessary effect when its proposed state is clamped. Falsify in favor of IH_01 if only output omission changes with intact private scope, or in favor of IH_03 if only the physiological cue interaction remains after sampling comprehension is verified.

What would weaken the hypothesis

Accurate correction may close the speaking agenda and cause cultural omissions predicts instead: Randomize source-equivalent correction versus restudy, C-R versus R-C, and a content-free outgoing-question agenda opened before versus after C.

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The agenda lists only which already-present relation must be conveyed; it does not supply its answer. Give an explicit new-recipient ignorance cue in every cell, match overt retrieval and elapsed time, and assess source knowledge on an independent unit set to avoid rehearsal contamination. Define D_A as the C-R minus R-C omission difference. The candidate predicts D_A>delta with no pre-opened agenda, but |D_A|<epsilon when the same agenda is opened before C; opening it only after C fails to rescue within the prespecified interval. Crucially, the correction arm has equal or higher private source accuracy but lower source-specific receiver accuracy. The correction-by-agenda interaction remains after matching trial-level attention, source-memory discrimination, total message length and ordinary given/new status. Uniform correction-time allocation, unchanged source-selection rules and a no-sleep immediate session do not remove it. Subsequent human-only descendants retain the between-lineage semantic advantage over a pilot-defined horizon; exact-artifact yoking abolishes predecessor-history differences. An absence of agenda timing specificity with a selective bundle-allocation effect favors IH_02; a sleep-stage/cue reversal favors IH_03; an explicit sampling-rule reversal favors IH_04. If ordinary audience-design/retrieval models already predict the whole interaction, remove the new-family claim even if the best schedule remains R-C.

Reconstruction may improve correction by revealing which repairs are useful together predicts instead: Cross C-R versus R-C with package-versus-separate-target allocation of an equal integration-time budget; everyone sees the same source cards for the same total time and completes the same number of model calls. Include targets whose experimentally defined functional value is additive and targets whose joint correction is complementary, while keeping the proposition rubric fixed. Estimate each participant's complementarity from incentive-compatible choices on independent calibration units. Let D_B be the R-C minus C-R source-specific functional accuracy gap. Predict D_B>delta under separate-target allocation for complementary relations, with a smaller |D_B| under package allocation; the package interaction is near zero for additive units. Manipulating retained relational identity changes measured bundle complementarity and predicts this interaction before seeing the final outcomes. The decisive replay control randomly yokes the exact per-target attention schedule and correction content from package winners to recipients who never bid: the auction-label effect and any unexplained order advantage should fall within epsilon once this allocation path is fixed. Agenda timing, sleep stage and evidence-sampling labels do not produce independent effects in the allocation-only model. Continued advantage after withdrawal must be predicted from what was actually corrected, not from the presence of old prices. If bids fail to forecast repair allocation, or fixed allocation leaves a reproducible agenda-, sleep-, or selection-rule-specific residual, reject this mechanism as the sufficient explanation in favor of the appropriate rival.

Sleep may favor correction after reconstruction by stabilizing source-role bindings predicts instead: Independently tag source-relation encoding and the human reconstruction episode with counterbalanced nonsemantic cues. Cross C-R versus R-C with a matched nap/quiet-rest interval, then, in the physiological validation, deliver source-episode versus reconstruction-episode cues during verified slow-wave sleep, with sham and waking-cue controls. Hold clock time, interference, cue count, arousal and source information constant or explicitly counterbalance them. Define D_S as the post-interval R-C minus C-R probability of preserving the arbitrary source relation, subtracting each schedule's immediate baseline on independent items. Predict a stage-by-cue-by-order interaction exceeding delta: stabilizing a correctable source-bound episode benefits R-C, whereas selectively stabilizing a conflicting reconstruction reduces or reverses that advantage. The corresponding effect is weaker than delta in waking/sham controls under this candidate's stated scope. Entity-only retention weakens the interaction despite matched recognition. One-step kernels estimated separately for sleep and wake plus standard retrieval, spacing and targeted-memory-reactivation effects are the nearest strong rival; an extra order-by-binding state must improve held-out prediction beyond them. If only a nonspecific sleep main effect occurs, or a standard replay model already predicts the full contrast, remove the proposed distinct family. If awake agenda timing or package allocation predicts the advantage and verified stage-specific cueing adds no informative effect, prefer IH_01 or IH_02. After withdrawal, test both original individuals and naive human chains; exact-message replay must eliminate inaccessible predecessor-sleep effects.

No test is published for this question yet

The hypotheses above state the observations that could distinguish them. A proposed experiment for this question has not yet been published.

What to check next: Does placing correction checked against a reference before rather than after human retelling change how well cultural meaning survives, and does any difference exceed predictions based on fixed changes at each step?

Every proposed test

What the literature settles, and what it does not

The sources read against this question, the assumption it rests on, and the verdict that follows.

Which correction and retelling order preserves meaning beyond expected losses, depends on retained information, and outlasts correction?

What this question is asking

The question concerns how the meaning of a story, message, or cultural practice survives when people retell it and receive corrections checked against an original or other specified reference. It asks whether correction before retelling works differently from correction after retelling, and whether either order preserves meaning better than a model that assumes each transmission step changes information in a fixed way would predict. It also asks which parts of the earlier material must remain available in memory for correction to help, and whether the advantage continues once corrections stop. The question appears to assume that such an extra advantage and a necessary memory condition exist; the supplied sources do not establish either assumption.

What the terms mean
Source-grounded correction
A correction checked against an original or another explicitly specified reference. In this question it supplies information that could restore something changed or lost in a retelling; the input does not identify the reference or establish its authority.
Human reconstruction or retelling
A person's rebuilding of a message, story, or practice from what is remembered and understood, potentially changing it in the process. The question treats this as a separate activity whose position before or after correction may matter.
Cultural transmission
The passing of information, stories, or practices between people or across successive versions. It can involve copying and alteration, so successful transmission does not automatically mean that meaning remains unchanged.
Cultural meaning and its preservation
What a transmitted message or practice signifies, including the relationships and interpretations that make it understandable. Preservation means retaining the aspects counted as relevant, which is a matter of degree; the supplied question does not specify those aspects or a measure for them.
Fixed-channel model and predictions
An account that represents each transmission or correction step as changing information according to a fixed rule or pattern. Its predictions provide the comparison for the proposed extra benefit; fixed steps can themselves produce different outcomes when their order is reversed, and the input supplies no specific model.
Retained information or memory prerequisite
Information still available in memory before correction occurs. Calling it a prerequisite means that correction cannot work without it, which is a stronger claim than finding that people who remember more also change their beliefs more.
Correction withdrawal and persistence
Withdrawal means that an ongoing supply of corrections stops; persistence means that a previously observed benefit remains afterward. A later test does not by itself establish the effects of stopping ongoing correction.
Misinformation correction, retraction, and correction resistance
Misinformation is information treated as false or inaccurate, a correction supplies a replacement or challenge, and a retraction withdraws an earlier claim. Correction resistance means that the mistaken belief or its influence remains despite that intervention; S9 discusses this problem in its supplied abstract.
Narrative and non-narrative correction
A narrative correction presents information as a story, whereas a non-narrative correction uses another form of explanation or presentation. These are formats for delivering correction, not the same activity as asking a person to reconstruct material from memory.
Myth-first and fact-first formats
Myth-first presents a false claim before the correct information; fact-first presents the correct information first. S5 compares these internal presentation orders, not correction before versus after retelling.
Baseline knowledge
What participants already know before the activity being studied. The supplied S5 account describes a course with high starting knowledge, which bounds the setting of its reported format comparison.
Discounting evidence and discounted statements
Discounting evidence is information offered as a reason to believe an earlier statement less; a discounted statement is one that has received that challenge. In S7, the supplied account says that this evidence was invented, so its effects do not establish the effects of correction checked against a real reference.
Recollection and gist recognition
Recollection involves remembering previously encountered material, while gist recognition involves identifying its broad meaning without necessarily recovering its exact wording. S7 links these aspects of memory to belief change, but the supplied findings do not establish either as a necessary condition.
Dysphoric group or depressed mood
Dysphoric describes an unpleasant or depressed mood; S7 uses this label for one student group. It describes the group comparison reported in the source and should not be read here as establishing a clinical diagnosis or a general finding for everyone with depression.
Memory-component estimates and replication
Memory-component estimates are numerical quantities used in a study to describe proposed contributions of different memory processes. Replication means obtaining an earlier result again in another study or experiment; conceptual support from a related measure does not mean that the original numerical differences were reproduced.
Exploratory analysis
An analysis used to investigate a pattern rather than simply reporting the study's central planned comparison. The supplied S4 quotation explicitly labels the analysis against a narrative advantage exploratory, a limitation retained in the account of its finding.
Abstract and review
An abstract is a short summary of a publication and does not provide all of its methods or results. A review discusses existing work rather than necessarily reporting a new experiment; S9 is represented here only by the abstract of such a review.
What the question takes for granted
Premise not found in what was read
An ordering of source-grounded correction and human reconstruction preserves cultural meaning beyond fixed-channel predictions, and some information must be retained before correction works.

Corrections checked against a reference supply material that can be used when a person remembers and retells a story or practice. The wording appears to assume that arranging these activities in a particular order can preserve meaning better than an account in which each step changes information in a fixed way, and that this extra benefit requires some earlier material to remain in memory. If those assumptions held, the question would concern the order and memory conditions responsible for an existing effect; otherwise, whether that effect exists is also unresolved.

The supplied search results do not establish this combined premise. S5 compares the order of false claims and correct facts within corrections, rather than correction before versus after human retelling, and reports no difference between those formats in its described course setting. S7 connects belief change with remembering corrective evidence, but its supplied account does not establish that such remembering is necessary, and the evidence presented to participants was invented rather than grounded in an independently checked source. S4 concerns narrative versus non-narrative corrections, and S9 supplies a review abstract about correction resistance. None establishes preservation beyond fixed-channel predictions or identifies a necessary retained element. This is an absence of support in the read material, not a demonstration that the premise is false; the question about persistence after withdrawal remains a question rather than an asserted premise.S4S5S7S9

The same question asked without the part nothing read establishes:

  • Does placing correction checked against a reference before rather than after human retelling change how well cultural meaning survives, and does any difference exceed predictions based on fixed changes at each step?
  • Does the information people retain before correction affect how well they preserve cultural meaning when retelling it?
  • Does any improvement in preservation of cultural meaning continue after corrections checked against a reference stop?
What turns on the answer
  • Correction before retelling has a lasting extra benefit If the required remembered material is available, correction could alter the information used to construct the next retelling, so later versions would inherit that change. If the advantage exceeds the specified fixed-channel predictions and remains after correction stops, preservation would extend beyond the period of external support, with order and retained information contributing to the explanation.
  • Correction after retelling has a lasting extra benefit A retelling would first produce a version that can then be corrected against the reference before further transmission. If this sequence preserves meaning better than the reverse order and beyond the specified fixed-channel predictions, with the advantage surviving withdrawal, correcting the reconstructed version would have a different consequence from correcting the material used to construct it.
  • An extra benefit depends on continuing correction An ordering advantage could arise while corrections repeatedly restore information that people would otherwise lose or change. If the advantage disappears after corrections stop, maintained access to the reference would account for ongoing support, and the observed preservation would not establish a lasting change in transmission.
  • No benefit beyond fixed-channel predictions An ordering difference could still occur because two fixed information-changing steps need not produce the same result when reversed. If the specified model explains preservation, the result would not establish the additional memory-dependent benefit presupposed by the question; the read sources also leave open whether any ordering difference exists at all.
Why it matters

When people pass material on, later versions can carry different meanings from earlier versions. Under the mechanism contemplated by the question, a correction supplies information from a reference, and a person's retelling determines which corrected and remembered elements enter the next version. If the order changes what survives, judging a correction only by an immediate change in belief could miss its consequences for later transmission. If any advantage disappears when correction stops, treating it as lasting preservation would mistake continued external support for persistence of the meaning itself. Conversely, if ordinary fixed changes at each step explain the result, attributing the advantage to an additional memory-dependent process would overstate what has been learned.

Still open

The question is open within the supplied read sources: none settles the correction-versus-reconstruction ordering, preservation beyond a fixed-channel account, a necessary retained element, or persistence after correction withdrawal. S5 settles a narrower format comparison in one educational setting, and S7 supplies related evidence about delayed belief change and memory, with limits and a non-replicated component result. S4 weighs against a narrative-format advantage, while S9 provides review background rather than a direct test. The inference from this coverage is that these neighboring findings cannot close the stated gap; it is not a claim that a comprehensive search of all literature would find no answer.S5S7S4S9

What the literature establishes
  • S4 reports an exploratory analysis that found very strong evidence against the predicted advantage of narrative over non-narrative misinformation corrections. That finding concerns presenting a correction as a story, rather than arranging correction before or after a person's retelling.S4
  • In the Experiment 2 account supplied for S5, video lectures that presented a false claim first and lectures that presented a correct fact first produced comparable improvement in climate knowledge. The course participants already had high knowledge at the start, and the reported analysis found no differential impact of those formats in that setting.S5
  • The supplied account of S7 reports reduced belief at a two-day test in statements that had been challenged by evidence, together with an association involving recollection of that evidence or recognition of its gist. Its quoted result concerns poorer recognition of the gist in a group of students experiencing depressed mood. The supplied material also states that the evidence used to challenge statements was invented and that Experiment 2 did not reproduce the earlier differences in the study's numerical estimates of memory components.S7
  • The abstract supplied for S9 describes a review of memory for misinformation, difficulty updating memory after a retraction, and cases in which attempts at correction can increase mistaken belief. It provides background on why correction can fail, rather than a reported comparison of the correction and retelling sequences in this question.S9
What it does not settle
  • No supplied source compares correction checked against a reference before versus after human reconstruction while measuring preservation of cultural meaning. The closest ordering comparison is S5's false-claim-first versus correct-fact-first presentation within corrections, which is a different comparison.S4S5S7S9
  • The input does not specify which meanings count as preserved, which reference establishes them, or how preservation differs from repeating the same wording, accepting a claim, or answering a knowledge question correctly. The read findings therefore do not supply the requested measure of cultural meaning.
  • No supplied source reports a comparison with fixed-channel predictions. The input also supplies no particular model or prediction, so it does not establish what size or kind of departure would count as preservation beyond that account.S4S5S7S9
  • S7 does not show that retaining the gist of corrective evidence, or any other specific information, is necessary before correction can work. An association between remembering evidence and belief change leaves the claimed prerequisite unsettled.S7
  • No supplied result establishes whether a cultural-meaning advantage survives withdrawal of correction. S7's two-day belief test is evidence about a delayed belief outcome, but its supplied account does not test withdrawal of ongoing correction or persistence through cultural transmission.S7
  • The magnitude, duration, and range of people or cultural materials for any proposed ordering advantage remain unestablished here. S5's high-knowledge course setting and S7's student groups differing in depressed mood do not supply those broader answers.S5S7
  • The available source coverage limits judgment: S7 is represented by an abstract despite its full-text label, S9 is abstract-only, and the supplied S5 material includes no results for Experiment 3. These gaps cannot be filled by assuming that the omitted sections support the proposed effect.S5S7S9
Where the sources disagree
  • S4 reports evidence against a narrative-correction advantage, and S5 reports no advantage for either tested correction format. These findings conflict with a blanket expectation that making corrections narrative or changing their internal order necessarily improves correction. They do not directly contradict the proposed correction-versus-retelling ordering effect, because neither study tests that comparison.S4S5
  • The supplied S7 account states that Experiment 2 did not replicate the earlier differences in estimates of memory components, although its quoted poorer gist recognition was described as conceptual support. Support from a related recognition result and failure to reproduce the earlier estimated differences must both remain visible; they do not establish a consistently reproduced necessary memory condition.S7
Sources read · 4

3 literature searches, 8 full texts, 2 abstract-only; 10 source(s) assessed against this question using the available text. A bounded search is not evidence of absence.

S4Background

You don't have to tell a story! A registered report testing the effectiveness of narrative versus non-narrative misinformation corrections. · Cognitive research: principles and implications · 2020

“An exploratory test using a directed alternative hypothesis H 1 in terms of a narrative benefit (i.e., N < NN rather than N ≠ NN) yielded BF 01 = 52.87, which can be interpreted as very strong evidence against a narrative benefit.”

Does not settle: The supplied fragment reports an exploratory test against a narrative correction advantage, but does not test the ordering of source-grounded correction and human reconstruction. It does not establish which cultural meanings must be retained before correction works, preservation beyond fixed-channel predictions, or whether any benefit persists after correction withdrawal. Bibliographic references do not establish those results.

S5Partly answers it

Correction format has a limited role when debunking misinformation. · Cognitive research: principles and implications · 2021

“There was no main effect of format, F < 1; BF 01 = 18.02, and no interaction, F < 1; BF 01 = 37.18, indicating that myth-first and fact-first formats had no differential impact.”

Does not settle: Experiment 2 establishes comparable climate-knowledge improvement for myth-first and fact-first video lectures in a course with high baseline knowledge. It does not compare correction with human reconstruction, measure preservation of cultural meaning, test predictions of fixed-channel models, identify what must be retained before correction works, or establish persistence after correction withdrawal. The supplied Experiment 3 section describes methods but gives no results.

S7Partly answers it

Challenging depressive beliefs: Habitual and recollective components of stability or change. · Journal of behavior therapy and experimental psychiatry · 2022

“The latter finding was conceptually supported by deficient recognition of the gist of the discounting evidence in the dysphoric group (Experiment 2).”

Does not settle: The supplied text contains an abstract despite the full_text label. It reports reduced belief in discounted statements at a two-day test and an association with evidence recollection/gist recognition in students differing in depressed state. It does not establish that retaining gist is necessary for correction, compare correction/reconstruction orderings, test source-grounded correction or cultural meaning against fixed-channel predictions, or test durability after correction withdrawal. The evidence was invented; Experiment 2 did not replicate the parameter differences.

S9BackgroundAbstract only

Misinformation and Its Correction: Continued Influence and Successful Debiasing. · Psychological science in the public interest : a journal of the American Psychological Society · 2012

“We look at people's memory for misinformation and answer the questions of why retractions of misinformation are so ineffective in memory updating and why efforts to retract misinformation can even backfire and, ironically, increase misbelief.”

Does not settle: The abstract describes a review of correction resistance and debiasing, but does not report which ordering of source-grounded correction and human reconstruction preserves cultural meaning, any prerequisites that must be retained, a comparison with fixed-channel predictions, or whether benefits persist after correction withdrawal.

Every open question