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

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  • ISBN: 9780195372885
  • ISBN: 0195372883
  • Physical Description: xiv, 202 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
  • Publisher: Oxford ; Oxford University Press, 2009.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-196) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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.
Subject: Human information processing > Physiological aspects.
Short-term memory > Physiological aspects.
Attention > Physiological aspects.
Cerebral cortex > Growth.
Neuroplasticity.

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