Why Life Speeds Up As You Get Older: How Memory Shapes our Past

Canto Classics

By: Douwe Draaisma

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Paperback | 29 March 2012

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Entertaining and educational, Douwe Draaisma's Why Life Speeds Up As You Get Older raises almost as many questions as it answers. Draaisma applies a blend of scholarship, poetic sensibility and keen observation in exploring the nature of autobiographical memory, covering subjects such as dej...-vu, near death experiences and the effect of severe trauma on memory recall, as well as human perceptions of time at different stages in life. A highly accessible and personal read, this book will not fail to touch or provoke thought in its readers.

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'... fascinating.' The Independent
'... one finishes the book with a heightened awareness of the complexity and the fickleness of human memory, and a genuine sense of pleasure at having encountered such a subtle, entertaining, and illuminating guide to the territory.' The Times Literary Supplement

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Non-Fiction Psychology Cognition & Cognitive Psychology Child & Developmental Psychology Sociology & Anthropology

'Memory is like a dog that lies down where it pleases'
Flashes in the dark: first memories
Smell and memory
Yesterday's record
The inner flashbulb
'Why do we remember forwards and not backwards?'
The absolute memories of Funes and Sherashevsky
The advantages of a defect: the savant syndrome
The memory of a grandmaster: a conversation with Ton Sijbrands
Trauma and memory: the Demjanjuk case
Richard and Anna Wagner: forty-five years of married life
'In oval mirrors we drive around': on experiencing a sense of déjà vu
Reminiscences
Why life speeds up as you get older
Forgetting
'I saw my life flash before me'
From memory - portrait with still life
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Why Life Speeds Up As You Get Older: How Memory Shapes our Past

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