Torkel Klingberg has a new book.
As the technological environment speeds up to a maddening degree, a professor of developmental cognitive neuroscience warns that the huge burden of information overload and multitasking can exceed the limits of our slowly evolving stone-age brain.
Klingberg notes a gap between the rapidity of electronic high-tech devices and the brain's relatively slower capacity to process information, leading to memory malfunctions.
The amount of scientific fact translated to something the reader can use is sizable, including keen writing on the impact on working memory of problem solving, meditation, computer games, caffeine and the existence of attention deficit disorder. Klingberg also reviews the evidence that mental exercise can increase the capacity of working memory.
A highly sane look at the increasingly insane demands of the information age, this book discusses with precision a subject worthy of attention.
