Overflowing Brain Information Overload and the Limits of Working Memory

Name: Overflowing Brain Information Overload and the Limits of Working Memory
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ISBN: 9780195372885

ISBN-10: 0195372883

ISBN-13: 9780195372885

Edition: 2009

Authors: Torkel Klingberg, Elkhonon Goldberg

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As the pace of technological change accelerates, we are increasinlgy experiencing a state of information overload. Statistics show that we are interupted every three minutes during the course of the work day. Multitasking between email, cell-phone, text messages, and four or five websites while listening to an I-pod forces the brain to process more and more informaton at greater and greater speeds. And yet the human brain has hardly changed in the last 40,000 years. Are all these high-tech advances overtaxing our Stone-Age brains or is the contant flood of information good for us, giving our brains the daily exercise they seem to crave? In The Overflowing Brain, cognitive scientist Torkel…

Book details

List price: $21.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/7/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 192
Size: 6.50" wide x 10.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English




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?



A Cognitive Gym



The Everyday Exercising of Our Mental Muscles



Computer Games



The Flynn Effect



Neurocognitive Enhancement



The Information Flood and Flow


Notes and References


Index