When Will They Ever Learn?
summary
Two-thirds of people report déjà vu; it first appears around age eight or nine, peaks near 25, and links to temporal-lobe epilepsy in some cases. Labs reliably induce false familiarity with word lists (and measure it in an MRI), use VR “DejaVille” scenes to trigger visual déjà vu, and raise déjà vu rates with caloric ear stimulation. The core claim is that déjà vu is a clash of subjective familiarity and objective awareness that the familiarity is false, not a memory retrieval. The door writing exercise shows semantic satiation.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction to deja vu
- 3:17Understanding the phenomenon
- 10:20Scientific theories
- 16:06Research and experiments
- 25:01Jamais vu and cognition
- 27:43Resilience and conclusions
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