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  • Social cognition
  • Collective memory
  • Evolutionary biology

Background:

  • Joint memory is the capacity of a social group to access and utilize its past transformations.
  • It can arise from combined individual memories or environmental cues.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore the concept of joint memory as a heuristic tool for understanding integrated social processes.
  • To examine the role of joint memory in social insects and vertebrates, with a focus on human cognition.

Main Methods:

  • Conceptual analysis of joint memory across different social systems.
  • Comparative examination of memory mechanisms in social insects, vertebrates, and humans.

Main Results:

  • Social insects exhibit collective outcomes based on past experience through action-perception loops.
  • Vertebrate social groups generally lack sufficient autonomy for robust joint memory.
  • Human joint memory is facilitated by external representations and cultural evolution, leading to socially distributed cognition.

Conclusions:

  • Joint memory is a critical concept for understanding group behavior and evolution.
  • External representations and cultural processes are key drivers of human joint memory and cognitive evolution.
  • The study highlights the diverse manifestations and evolutionary significance of joint memory across species.