The overflowing brain : information overload and the limits of working memory / Torkel Klingberg ; translated by Neil Betteridge.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780195372885
- ISBN: 0195372883
- Physical Description: xiv, 202 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Publisher: Oxford ; Oxford University Press, 2009.
Content descriptions
| 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. |
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| Subject: | Human information processing > Physiological aspects. Short-term memory > Physiological aspects. Attention > Physiological aspects. Cerebral cortex > Growth. Neuroplasticity. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Statesville Main Library | 153 KLI (Text) | 33114016202046 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
