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Author Draaisma, D.

Title Why life speeds up as you get older : how memory shapes our past / Douwe Draaisma ; translated by Arnold and Erica Pomerans.

Publication Info. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  153.13 D756W    Check Shelf
Description ix, 277 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents '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 dejà vu -- Reminiscences -- Why life speeds up as you get older -- Forgetting -- 'I saw my life flash before me' -- From memory - Portrait with Sill Life.
Subject Autobiographical memory.
Memory.
Added Title Waarom het leven sneller gaat als je ouder wordt. English
ISBN 0521834244
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