The overflowing brain : information overload and the limits of working memory / Torkel Klingberg ; translated by Neil Betteridge.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.Description: xiv, 202 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0195372883 : HRD
  • 9780195372885
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 153 22
LOC classification:
  • BF444 .K5513 2009
NLM classification:
  • BF 371
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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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.

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