The overflowing brain : information overload and the limits of working memory /
Klingberg, Torkel, 1967-
The overflowing brain : information overload and the limits of working memory / Torkel Klingberg ; translated by Neil Betteridge. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009. - xiv, 202 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-196) and index.
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.
9780195372885 (alk. paper) 0195372883 (alk. paper)
2008014273
101469965 DNLM
Human information processing--Physiological aspects.
Short-term memory--Physiological aspects.
Attention--Physiological aspects.
Cerebral cortex--Growth.
Neuroplasticity.
BF444 / .K5513 2009
153
2008 N-333 BF 371 / K654o 2009
The overflowing brain : information overload and the limits of working memory / Torkel Klingberg ; translated by Neil Betteridge. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009. - xiv, 202 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-196) and index.
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.
9780195372885 (alk. paper) 0195372883 (alk. paper)
2008014273
101469965 DNLM
Human information processing--Physiological aspects.
Short-term memory--Physiological aspects.
Attention--Physiological aspects.
Cerebral cortex--Growth.
Neuroplasticity.
BF444 / .K5513 2009
153
2008 N-333 BF 371 / K654o 2009