The overflowing brain : information overload and the limits of working memory /
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 lis...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English Swedish |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2009.
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 9780199706723 0199706727 9780195372885 0195372883 1281826014 9781281826015 9786611826017 6611826017 0199888256 9780199888252 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | 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 information 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 202 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-196) and index. |
| Language Note: | Translated from the Swedish. |
| Library Staff: | View instance in FOLIO |