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The overflowing brain : information overload and the limits of working memory /

Main Author: Klingberg, Torkel, 1967-
Format: Book
Language:English
Swedish
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Subjects:
Human information processing > Physiological aspects.
Short-term memory > Physiological aspects.
Attention > Physiological aspects.
Cerebral cortex > Growth.
Neuroplasticity
Table of 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.

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