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.