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

Summary: Why Life Speeds Up As You Get Older raises almost as many questions as it answers. Draaisma explores the nature of autobiographical memory, covering subjects such as dejvu, near death experiences and the effect of severe trauma on memory recall, as well as human perceptions of time at different stages in life.

Record details

ISBN: 110764626X
ISBN: 9781107646261
ISBN: 1107414768
ISBN: 9781107414761
ISBN: 1139197096
ISBN: 9781139197090
Physical Description: 1 online resource (ix, 277 pages) : illustrations
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Edition: New edition.
Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Content descriptions

General Note:	First ed. published in 2006.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	'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.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.