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Why life speeds up as you get older : how memory shapes our past
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ISBN: 9781107646261 9781139197090 1139197096 9781107414761 1107414768 110764626X 1107387051 1139894064 1107395585 1107387868 1107390788 1322521492 Year: 2012 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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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 déjà-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.

Why life speeds up as you get older : how memory shapes our past.
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ISBN: 0521691990 0521834244 9780521691994 9780521834247 9780511489945 0511489943 9780511252723 0511252722 9780511338472 0511338473 0511337388 9780511337383 1281113034 9781281113030 1107161010 9781107161016 9786611113032 6611113037 1139130668 9781139130660 0511337914 9780511337918 051133673X Year: 2006 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge university press

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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.


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