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Strategies of Buenos Aires waiters to enhance memory capacity in a real-life setting
Authors:
BEKINSCHTEIN, T.A., Cardozo, J. & Manes, F.F.
Reference:
Behavioural Neurology, 20, 65-70
Year of publication:
2008
CBU number:
7036
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.
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