Why Life Speeds Up As You Get Older : How Memory Shapes our Past
Draaisma, Douwe2012
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Draaisma applies a blend of scholarship, poetic sensibility and keen observation in exploring the nature of autobiographical memory. 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 dj-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.
Main title:
Why Life Speeds Up As You Get Older : How Memory Shapes our Past / Douwe Draaisma.
Author:
Draaisma, Douwe, author
Imprint:
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Collation:
288 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Series:
Canto Classics
Contents:
1. 'Memory is like a dog that lies down where it pleases'; 2. Flashes in the dark: first memories; 3. Smell and memory; 4. Yesterday's record; 5. The inner flashbulb; 6. 'Why do we remember forwards and not backwards?'; 7. The absolute memories of Funes and Sherashevsky; 8. The advantages of a defect: the savant syndrome; 9. The memory of a grandmaster: a conversation with Ton Sijbrands; 10. Trauma and memory: the Demjanjuk case; 11. Richard and Anna Wagner: forty-five years of married life; 12. 'In oval mirrors we drive around': on experiencing a sense of dj vu; 13. Reminiscences; 14. Why life speeds up as you get older; 15. Forgetting; 16. 'I saw my life flash before me'; 17. From memory - portrait with still life.
ISBN:
9781107646261
LC class:
BF378.A87 D735 2012
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
3598268
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