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Why Life Speeds Up As You Get Older: How Memory Shapes our Past Draaisma, Douwe (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands)
Why Life Speeds Up As You Get Older: How Memory Shapes our Past
Draaisma, Douwe (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands)
In this enchanting and thoughtful book (shortlisted for the 2005 Aventis Prize), Douwe Draaisma, author of the internationally acclaimed Metaphors of Memory, explores the nature of autobiographical memory and extraordinary phenomena such as the memory feats of idiot-savants or the effects of extreme trauma on memory recall.
288 pages, 25 b/w illus.
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | November 4, 2004 |
| ISBN13 | 9780521834247 |
| Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 288 |
| Dimensions | 160 × 234 × 22 mm · 688 g (Weight (estimated)) |
| Language | English |
| Translator | Pomerans, Arnold |
| Translator | Pomerans, Erica |