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

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Cambridge University Press, 2012 M03 29 - 288 páginas
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 déj...-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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first memories
15
Smell and memory
31
Yesterdays record
45
Why do we remember forwards and not backwards?
55
The absolute memories of Funes and Sherashevsky
61
the savant syndrome
73
a conversation
98
the Demjanjuk case
107
fortyfive years
131
on experiencing
141
Reminiscences
172
Forgetting
226
I saw my life flash before me
239
From memory Portrait with Still Life
269
172
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