Why Life Speeds Up As You Get Older: How Memory Shapes our Past

Douwe Draaisma

doi:10.1017/CBO9781139197090

Why Life Speeds Up As You Get Older

How Memory Shapes our Past

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Douwe Draaisma, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: July 2014
Print publication year:: 2012
Online ISBN:: 9781139197090
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139197090

Subjects:: Sociology: General Interest, Psychology, Cognition, Sociology, General
Series:: Canto Classics

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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.

‘… fascinating.'

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‘… one finishes the book with a heightened awareness of the complexity and the fickleness of human memory, and a genuine sense of pleasure at having encountered such a subtle, entertaining, and illuminating guide to the territory.'

Source: The Times Literary Supplement

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How Memory Shapes our Past

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-v

List of illustrations
pp vi-viii

Acknowledgments
pp ix-x

1 - ‘Memory is like a dog that lies down where it pleases’
pp 1-14

2 - Flashes in the dark: first memories
pp 15-30

3 - Smell and memory
pp 31-44

4 - Yesterday's record
pp 45-48

5 - The inner flashbulb
pp 49-54

6 - ‘Why do we remember forwards and not backwards?’
pp 55-60

7 - The absolute memories of Funes and Sherashevsky
pp 61-72

8 - The advantages of a defect: the savant syndrome
pp 73-97

9 - The memory of a grandmaster: a conversation with Ton Sijbrands
pp 98-106

10 - Trauma and memory: the Demjanjuk case
pp 107-130

11 - Richard and Anna Wagner: forty-five years of married life
pp 131-140

12 - ‘In oval mirrors we drive around’: on experiencing a sense of déjà vu
pp 141-171

13 - Reminiscences
pp 172-200

14 - Why life speeds up as you get older
pp 201-225

15 - Forgetting
pp 226-238

16 - ‘I saw my life flash before me’
pp 239-268

17 - From memory – Portrait with Still Life
pp 269-272

Bibliography
pp 273-273

Index of names
pp 274-277

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