La memoria y la vida

Memory and life is a key work to understand the perfect symbiosis that is braided between memories and vital experiences. At the end of the day, we are nothing but the story that we are building while we debate between temporary transience and the work of the brain to neutralize it. Life is a narrative that we develop every day in the territory of memory, in that personal factory of memories thanks to which we are what we are, we know who we are and the days acquire a sense of continuity. What he does is something as fascinating as stopping time and giving way to what really ends up giving birth to an individual with an identity and a biography. We are what we remember, but do we know why memory works the way it does? Whimsical, sometimes. Incomprehensible, others. In this book, as rigorous as it is entertaining, the professor of Psychology of Memory José María Ruiz Vargas lucidly unravels some questions about memories. Are they reliable? Do they conform to the past or are they an invention? Why can't we rescue any of our early years? Why are so many things forgotten and yet we can't get what hurts us the most out of our heads? Why do some lived events come back to mind? How does the brain react to aging? Why does time speed up with age?