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    Behav Neurol. 2008;20(3):65-70.

    Strategies of Buenos Aires waiters to enhance memory capacity in a real-life setting.

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    Institute of Cognitive Neurology (INECO), Buenos Aires, Argentina.

    Abstract

    Human learning and memory evaluation in real-life situations remains difficult due to uncontrolled variables. Buenos Aires waiters, who memorize all the orders without written support, were evaluated in situ. Waiters received either eight different orders and customers remained seated in their original locations (OL), or changed locations (CL). Match between orders, subjects and location was decreased only in CL. Waiters' feature/location strategy links client with position at the table and beverage later. The hypothesis we raise is that memory-schemas link working memory to long-term memory networks through rapid encoding, making the information resistant to interference and enabling its fast retrieval if necessary cues are present.

    PMID:
    19641243
    [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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