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Why Life Speeds Up As You Get Older - How Memory Shapes our Past (Hardcover)
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Why Life Speeds Up As You Get Older - How Memory Shapes our Past (Hardcover)
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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, as we grow older, does time
seem to condense, speed up and elude us, while in old age,
significant events from our distant past can seem as vivid and real
as what happened yesterday? Douwe Draaisma, author of the
internationally acclaimed Metaphors of Memory (Cambridge, 2001),
explores the nature of autobiographical memory. Applying a unique
blend of scholarship, poetic sensibility, and keen observation, he
tackles such extraordinary phenomena as deja-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 affect you at
the same time as it educates and entertains. Douwe Draaisma is
Professor of the History of Psychology in the Department of Theory
and History of Psychology at the University of Groningen, The
Netherlands. He has published books on time and memory and his
articles have appeared in professional journals as diverse as
Annals of Science, Psychological Medicine, and Nature. The original
Dutch version of Why Life Speeds Up As You Get Older has won
several scientific and literary awards.
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