The overflowing brain information overload and the limits of working memory
As the pace of technological change accelerates, we are increasingly experiencing a state of information overload. Statistics show that we are interrupted every three minutes during the course of the work day. Multitasking between email, cell-phone, text messages, and four or five websites while lis...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press
2009.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | Oxford scholarship online.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798502106719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
