LEADER 03246nam 2200733Ia 450 001 9910816561403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-19-770897-8 010 $a0-19-988825-6 010 $a1-281-82601-4 010 $a9786611826017 010 $a0-19-970672-7 024 7 $a10.1093/oso/9780195372885.001.0001 035 $a(CKB)1000000000556372 035 $a(EBL)415934 035 $a(OCoLC)476245848 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000217154 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11197961 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000217154 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10202078 035 $a(PQKB)10013628 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL415934 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10254418 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL182601 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC415934 035 $a(OCoLC)1406783096 035 $a(StDuBDS)9780197708972 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000556372 100 $a20080327d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe overflowing brain $einformation overload and the limits of working memory /$fTorkel Klingberg ; translated by Neil Betteridge 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aOxford ;$aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (217 p.) 225 1 $aOxford scholarship online 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2008. 311 $a0-19-537288-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 171-196) and index. 327 $aIntroduction : 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. 330 $aAs the pace of technological change accelerates, we are increasingly experiencing a state of information overload. Statistics show that we are interrupted every three minutes during the course of the work day. Multitasking between email, cell-phone, text messages, and four or five websites while listening to an iPod forces the brain to process more and more informaton at greater and greater speeds. And yet the human brain has hardly changed in the last 40,000 years. Are all these high-tech advan 410 0$aOxford scholarship online. 606 $aHuman information processing$xPhysiological aspects 606 $aShort-term memory$xPhysiological aspects 606 $aAttention$xPhysiological aspects 606 $aCerebral cortex$xGrowth 606 $aNeuroplasticity 615 0$aHuman information processing$xPhysiological aspects. 615 0$aShort-term memory$xPhysiological aspects. 615 0$aAttention$xPhysiological aspects. 615 0$aCerebral cortex$xGrowth. 615 0$aNeuroplasticity. 676 $a153 700 $aKlingberg$b Torkel$f1967-$01678675 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910816561403321 996 $aThe overflowing brain$94046484 997 $aUNINA