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. - Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004. - ix, 277 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
'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 dâejáa vu -- Reminiscences -- Why life speeds up as you get older -- Forgetting -- 'I saw my life flash before my eyes like a film' -- From memory - Portrait with Still Life.
0521834244 9780521834247
2004049441
101234156 DNLM
Autobiographical memory.
Memory.
Geheugen.
Autobiografieèen.
Herinnering.
Mâemoire âepisodique.
BF378.A87 / D7313 2004 D756 2004
153.1/3
2004 M-619 BF 378.A87 / D756w 2004a
Why life speeds up as you get older : how memory shapes our past / Douwe Draaisma ; translated by Arnold and Erica Pomerans. - Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004. - ix, 277 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
'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 dâejáa vu -- Reminiscences -- Why life speeds up as you get older -- Forgetting -- 'I saw my life flash before my eyes like a film' -- From memory - Portrait with Still Life.
0521834244 9780521834247
2004049441
101234156 DNLM
Autobiographical memory.
Memory.
Geheugen.
Autobiografieèen.
Herinnering.
Mâemoire âepisodique.
BF378.A87 / D7313 2004 D756 2004
153.1/3
2004 M-619 BF 378.A87 / D756w 2004a