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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Klingberg, Torkel, 1967-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Swedish
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Subjects:
Human information processing > Physiological aspects.
Short-term memory > Physiological aspects.
Attention > Physiological aspects.
Cerebral cortex > Growth.
Neuroplasticity.
Attention.
Memory
Neuronal Plasticity
Attention
Memory Disorders > pathology
Neuronal Plasticity > physiology
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9780199706723
0199706727
9780195372885
0195372883
1281826014
9781281826015
9786611826017
6611826017
0199888256
9780199888252
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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