The overflowing brain : information overload and the limits of working memory /

The overflowing brain : information overload and the limits of working memory /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Klingberg, Torkel, 1967-
Uniform title:	Översvämmade hjärnan. English
Imprint:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Description:	1 online resource (xiv, 202 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Human information processing -- Physiological aspects. Short-term memory -- Physiological aspects. Attention -- Physiological aspects. Cerebral cortex -- Growth. Neuroplasticity. Attention -- Physiological aspects. Cerebral cortex -- Growth. Human information processing -- Physiological aspects. Neuroplasticity. Short-term memory -- Physiological aspects. Memory. Attention. Memory Disorders -- pathology. Neuronal Plasticity -- physiology. Electronic book.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11185924

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ISBN:	9780199706723 0199706727 9780195372885 0195372883 1281826014 9781281826015 9786611826017 6611826017
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-196) and index. Translated from the Swedish. Legacy 2017 Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Klingberg, Torkel, 1967- Översvämmade hjärnan. English. Overflowing brain. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009 9780195372885 0195372883
Standard no.:	2823465

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.