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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

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