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Why life speeds up as you get older : = how memory shapes our past /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Why life speeds up as you get older :/ Douwe Draaisma ; translated by Arnold and Erica Pomerans.
Reminder of title:	how memory shapes our past /
Author:	Draaisma, D.,
other author:	Pomerans, Arnold,
Description:	1 online resource (ix, 277 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Autobiographical memory. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511489945
ISBN:	9780511489945 (ebook)

Why life speeds up as you get older : = how memory shapes our past /
Draaisma, D.,

Why life speeds up as you get older :how memory shapes our past /Douwe Draaisma ; translated by Arnold and Erica Pomerans. - 1 online resource (ix, 277 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Is it true, as the novelist Cees Nooteboom once wrote, that 'Memory is like a dog that lies down where it pleases'? Where do the long, lazy summers of our childhood go? Why is it that as we grow older time seems to condense, speed up, elude us, while in old age significant events from our distant past can seem as vivid and real as what happened yesterday? In this enchanting and thoughtful 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 déjà-vu, near-death experiences, the memory feats of idiot-savants and the effects of extreme trauma on memory recall. Raising almost as many questions as it answers, this fascinating book will not fail to touch you at the same time as it educates and entertains.

ISBN: 9780511489945 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

593052
Autobiographical memory.

LC Class. No.: BF378.A87 / D7313 2004

Dewey Class. No.: 153.1/3

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