Going Shopping and Identifying Landmarks: Does Collaboration Improve Older People's Memory?

By M. Ross, S. Spencer, Lisa Linardatos, Kent C. H. Lam, Mihailo Perunovic. 2004

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Couples as socially distributed cognitive systems: Remembering in everyday social and material contexts (2014, background): “For instance, Ross et al. (2004) found that older couples made fewer memory errors on a shopping list task when they collaborated, whereas Johansson et al. (2005) found that a subset of older couples – those high on division of responsibility and on agreement about expertise – were relatively less…”
When Is It Better to Learn Together? Insights from Research on Collaborative Learning (2015, background): “Error-correction, in which individual members can check the logic and rationale of each other’s solutions, has been hypothesized as a major source of benefit to groups (Ross et al. 2004).”
We Remember, We Forget: Collaborative Remembering in Older Couples (2011, background): “…adults demonstrate collaborative inhibition (Ross, Spencer, Linardatos, Lam, & Perunovic, 2004), equivalent to that showed by younger adults (Meade & Roediger, 2009) and even when collaborating with their spouse rather than a stranger (Ross, Spencer, Blatz, & Restorick, 2008; Ross et al., 2004).”