Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- 1 ‘Memory is like a dog that lies down where it pleases’
- 2 Flashes in the dark: first memories
- 3 Smell and memory
- 4 Yesterday's record
- 5 The inner flashbulb
- 6 ‘Why do we remember forwards and not backwards?’
- 7 The absolute memories of Funes and Sherashevsky
- 8 The advantages of a defect: the savant syndrome
- 9 The memory of a grandmaster: a conversation with Ton Sijbrands
- 10 Trauma and memory: the Demjanjuk case
- 11 Richard and Anna Wagner: forty-five years of married life
- 12 ‘In oval mirrors we drive around’: on experiencing a sense of déjà vu
- 13 Reminiscences
- 14 Why life speeds up as you get older
- 15 Forgetting
- 16 ‘I saw my life flash before me’
- 17 From memory – Portrait with Still Life
- Index of names
Index of names
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- 1 ‘Memory is like a dog that lies down where it pleases’
- 2 Flashes in the dark: first memories
- 3 Smell and memory
- 4 Yesterday's record
- 5 The inner flashbulb
- 6 ‘Why do we remember forwards and not backwards?’
- 7 The absolute memories of Funes and Sherashevsky
- 8 The advantages of a defect: the savant syndrome
- 9 The memory of a grandmaster: a conversation with Ton Sijbrands
- 10 Trauma and memory: the Demjanjuk case
- 11 Richard and Anna Wagner: forty-five years of married life
- 12 ‘In oval mirrors we drive around’: on experiencing a sense of déjà vu
- 13 Reminiscences
- 14 Why life speeds up as you get older
- 15 Forgetting
- 16 ‘I saw my life flash before me’
- 17 From memory – Portrait with Still Life
- Index of names
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- Why Life Speeds Up As You Get OlderHow Memory Shapes our Past, pp. 274 - 277Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2004