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The model you're talking about also sounds similar to the Intense World Theory [1] of autism. It says that an autistic brain tries to process more details about the world around them than a typical brain does, and therefore gets easily overwhelmed when there's too much information to process. Autism, of course, is not exactly the same as introversion (autistic people usually don't get social cues), but the theory seems to have some commonalities with the idea you're describing.

Saturation is exactly how I'd describe interacting with a large number of people at the same time, too. I feel like an app server that's suddenly getting hammered with more simultaneous requests than I can handle. I'd handle those requests much more efficiently if they were serialized, one by one.

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21191475



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