Strategies of buenos aires waiters to enhance memory capacity in a real-life setting

Behavioural Neurology

Volumn 20, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 65-70

  Bekinschtein, Tristan A ^a,b   Cardozo, Julian ^a   Manes, Facundo F ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE NEUROLOGY INECO   (Argentina)

^b MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^c FAVALORO UNIVERSITY   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Expertise; Memory; Real life

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 68649103245     PISSN: 09534180     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/BEN-2008-0214     Document Type: Article

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