Why life speeds up as you get older : how memory shapes our past
Douwe Draaisma (Author), Arnold Pomerans (Translator), Erica Pomerans (Translator)
"In this book, Douwe Draaisma, author of the internationally acclaimed Metaphors of Memory, explores the nature of autobiographical memory. Applying a unique blend of scholarship, poetic sensibility and keen observation he tackles such extraordinary phenomena as deja vu, near-death experiences, the memory feats of idiots savants and the effects of extreme trauma on memory recall. Raising almost as many questions as it answers, this book will not fail to touch you at the same time as it educates and entertains."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 2006
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Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2006
ix, 277 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
9780521691994, 9780521834247, 0521691990, 0521834244
75294338
Print version
'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
Originally published by Historische Uitgeverij as Waarom het leven sneller gaat als je ouder wordt. Over het autobiografische geheugen, ©2001
Translated from the Dutch
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