Title:
The overflowing brain : information overload and the limits of working memory / Torkel Klingberg ; translated by Neil Betteridge.
Author:
Klingberg, Torkel, 1967-
Publication Information:
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2009.
Call Number:
BF444 .K5513 2009
ISBN:
9780195372885
Physical Description:
xiv, 202 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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.
Uniform Title:
Översvämmade hjärnan. English
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