Neuroscience · Perception
Déjà Vu: When the Present Feels Remembered
Why can unfamiliar experiences suddenly feel familiar? A neurological mystery with testable cognitive explanations.
Déjà vu involves a striking sense of familiarity without a corresponding retrievable memory. Research explores recognition, contextual similarity and medial temporal lobe processes.
The sensation is not itself evidence of precognition or a previous life; occasional episodes also differ from clinically relevant recurring symptoms.
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