Déjà Vu: What Happens in the Brain

Sampathkumar, Ananya

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Title

Déjà Vu: What Happens in the Brain

Author(s)

Sampathkumar, Ananya

Issue Date

2024

Keyword(s)

• deja vu
• mental disorders
• memory

Date of Ingest

2025-03-13T20:55:00-05:00

Abstract

Déjà vu is a common phenomenon that most healthy people experience. Despite its commonness, it is difficult to stimulate in a lab situation, making information on this experience scarce. In order to combat this, researchers have come up with multiple theories on where déjà vu takes place, what occurs, and why it actually happens. Researchers have also begun to study mental disorders that involve déjà vu in order to possibly learn more about the elusive experience. Understanding déjà vu is crucial to gaining a fuller understanding of memory, and how the brain reacts when memories are altered or off kilter; as further technology is developed, scientists will be able to test out all theories surrounding déjà vu and narrow down the true cause.

Publisher

University of Illinois Undergraduate Neuroscience Society

Type of Resource

text

Genre of Resource

article

Language

eng

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Copyright 2024 Ananya Sampathkumar

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