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



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Autore: Klingberg Torkel <1967-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: The overflowing brain : information overload and the limits of working memory / / Torkel Klingberg ; translated by Neil Betteridge Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (217 p.)
Disciplina: 153
Soggetto topico: Human information processing - Physiological aspects
Short-term memory - Physiological aspects
Attention - Physiological aspects
Cerebral cortex - Growth
Neuroplasticity
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
Titolo autorizzato: The overflowing brain  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-19-770897-8
0-19-988825-6
1-281-82601-4
9786611826017
0-19-970672-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910816561403321
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Serie: Oxford scholarship online.