the.com/cognitive overload
the mental equivalent of forty browser tabs open and one of them is playing music you can't find.
means when the demands on your working memory exceed its capacity, so processing degrades instead of speeding up.
from rooted in cognitive load theory, developed by educational psychologist john sweller in the 1980s to explain why poorly designed instruction sabotages learning even when the material itself is simple.
working memory limitholds roughly four chunks of information at once
not about intelligenceeven experts overload under enough simultaneous demands
design fixchunking information reduces load without cutting content