TY - BOOK ID - 77874101 TI - The overflowing brain PY - 2009 SN - 1281826014 9786611826017 0199706727 9780199706723 9780195372885 0195372883 9781281826015 6611826017 0199888256 0197708978 9780199888252 PB - Oxford New York Oxford University Press DB - UniCat KW - Human information processing KW - Short-term memory KW - Attention KW - Cerebral cortex KW - Neuroplasticity. KW - Nervous system plasticity KW - Neural adaptation KW - Neural plasticity KW - Neuronal adaptation KW - Neuronal plasticity KW - Plasticity, Nervous system KW - Soft-wired nervous system KW - Synaptic plasticity KW - Adaptation (Physiology) KW - Neurophysiology KW - Developmental neurobiology KW - Brain mantle KW - Cortex, Cerebral KW - Cortex cerebri KW - Mantle of brain KW - Pallium (Brain) KW - Telencephalon KW - Concentration (Psychology) KW - Flow (Psychology) KW - Apperception KW - Arousal (Physiology) KW - Educational psychology KW - Memory KW - Psychology KW - Thought and thinking KW - Distraction (Psychology) KW - Executive functions (Neuropsychology) KW - Interest (Psychology) KW - Immediate memory KW - Working memory KW - Information processing, Human KW - Bionics KW - Information theory in psychology KW - Perception KW - Physiological aspects. KW - Growth. KW - Memory. KW - Attention. KW - Memory Disorders KW - Neuronal Plasticity KW - pathology. KW - physiology. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77874101 AB - 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 ER -