1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990004458830403321

Autore

Balla, Emil

Titolo

Das Ich der Psalmen / untersucht von Emil Balla

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Göttingen : Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 1912

Descrizione fisica

IV, 155 p. ; 19 cm

Collana

Forschungen zur Religion und Literatur des Alten und Neuen Testaments ; 16

Disciplina

223.2

Locazione

FLFBC

Collocazione

200/3 0307

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910972478803321

Autore

Klingberg Torkel <1967->

Titolo

The overflowing brain : information overload and the limits of working memory / / Torkel Klingberg ; translated by Neil Betteridge

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009

ISBN

0-19-770897-8

0-19-988825-6

1-281-82601-4

9786611826017

0-19-970672-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (217 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

153

Soggetti

Human information processing - Physiological aspects

Short-term memory - Physiological aspects

Attention - Physiological aspects

Cerebral cortex - Growth

Neuroplasticity

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese



Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2008.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-196) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : the stone age brain meets the information flood -- The information portal -- The mental workbench -- Models of working memory -- The brain and the magical number seven -- Simultaneous capacity and mental bandwidth -- Wallace's paradox -- Brain plasticity -- Does ADHD exist? -- The everyday exercising of our mental muscles -- Computer games -- The Flynn effect -- Neurocognitive enhancement -- The information flood and flow.

Sommario/riassunto

As the pace of technological change accelerates, we are increasingly experiencing a state of information overload. Statistics show that we are interrupted every three minutes during the course of the work day. Multitasking between email, cell-phone, text messages, and four or five websites while listening to an iPod forces the brain to process more and more informaton at greater and greater speeds. And yet the human brain has hardly changed in the last 40,000 years. Are all these high-tech advan