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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1. Verfasser: Klingberg, Torkel, 1967-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Swedish
Veröffentlicht: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
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Zusammenfassung: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 listening to an iPod forces the brain to process more and more information at greater and greater speeds. And yet the human brain has hardly changed in the last 40,000 years. Are all these high-tech advan.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xiv, 202 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-196) and index.
ISBN:9780199706723
0199706727
9780195372885
0195372883
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9781281826015
9786611826017
6611826017
0199888256
9780199888252

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