Why Life Speeds Up As You Get Older: How Memory Shapes our Past (Canto Classics) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Why Life Speeds Up As You Get Older: How Memory Shapes our Past (Canto Classics) Book

Paperback. Pub Date :2012-03-30 Pages: 288 Language: English Publisher: Cambridge University Press Entertaining and educational. Douwe Draaismas 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 dj-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. Contents: Memory is like a dog that lies down where it pleasesFlashes in the dark: first memoriesSmell and memoryYesterdays recordThe inner flashbulbWhy do we remember forwards and not backwardsThe absolute memories of Funes and SherashevskyThe a...Read More

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  • Foyles

    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 deja-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.

  • Blackwell

    Draaisma applies a blend of scholarship, poetic sensibility and keen observation in exploring the nature of autobiographical memory. Entertaining and educational, Douwe Draaisma's Why Life Speeds Up As You Get Older raises almost as many questions...

  • 110764626X
  • 9781107646261
  • Douwe Draaisma
  • 29 March 2012
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 288
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