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 |
| Sumario: | 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 informaton 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 |
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| Notas: | Previously issued in print: 2008. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (217 p.) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-196) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780197708972 9780199888252 9781281826015 9786611826017 9780199706723 |
