Why Life Speeds Up As You Get Older

Name: Why Life Speeds Up As You Get Older
Author: Douwe Draaisma

How Memory Shapes our Past

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Paperback, 288 blz. | Engels

Cambridge University Press | 2012

ISBN13: 9781107646261

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Cambridge University Press e druk, 2012 9781107646261

Onderdeel van serie Canto Classics

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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 déjà-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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ISBN13:9781107646261

Taal:Engels

Bindwijze:Paperback

Aantal pagina's:288

Uitgever:Cambridge University Press

Serie:Canto Classics

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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 déjà 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.

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