Forest memory study / page 07
Listening circles, dry-season cohort
Stories do not vanish; they thin at the branch tips.
THREE-TALE RECALL
68.4%
Elders' songs lifted remembered animal-spirit stories by more than two times.
+36.7 pts
Before the archive fire
After six listening circles
31.7%
quiet embers
68.4%
branch memory
SHARED SONGS MAKE THE OLD NAMES EASIER TO HOLD