"The assumption has long been that human beings can usually keep only about seven new items of information in mind...Recent studies - including one published last year in the journal Behavioral Neurology that tested the memories of veteran cafe waiters in Buenos Aires - found that the servers' constant practice actually expands teh brain's memory function. Smelling a market of baby boomers eager to ward off the fog of aging, several companies have now designed games to mimic the challenge of remembering restaurant orders - including one by Happy Neuron."
Memory Serves Them Well
by Steve Hendrix
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/11/AR2010011103936.html
*Happy Neuron Memory Game
http://www.happy-neuron.com/games/memory/Restaurant.html
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