Why Life Speeds Up As You Get Older: How Memory Shapes our Past (Canto Classics) [平装]

內容簡介

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.
 

目錄
'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 déjà vu
Reminiscences
Why life speeds up as you get older
Forgetting
'I saw my life flash before me'
From memory - portrait with still life