1st Edition

Déjà vu and Other Dissociative States in Memory

Edited By Akira R. O’Connor, Chris J. A. Moulin Copyright 2023
122 Pages
by Routledge

122 Pages
by Routledge

122 Pages
by Routledge

This book collates the work of world-leading researchers on déjà vu and other dissociative states of memory and presents a snapshot of the state of the art in research on these strange phenomena. Déjà vu is the eerie feeling of familiarity for something that you know you have not experienced before—the dissociation between what you feel about your memory and what you know to be true about it.... Read more

Introduction: Déjà vu and other dissociative states in memory

Akira R. O’Connor, Christine Wells and Chris J. A. Moulin

1. Déjà vu and prescience in a case of severe episodic amnesia following bilateral hippocampal lesions

Jonathan Curot, Jérémie Pariente, Jean Michel Hupé, Jean-Albert Lotterie, Hélène Mirabel and Emmanuel J. Barbeau

2. Déjà vu and the entorhinal cortex: dissociating recollective from familiarity disruptions in a single case patient

Karen Rosemarie Brandt, Martin Antony Conway, Adele James and Tim J. von Oertzen

3. Overcoming familiarity illusions in a single case with persistent déjà vu

Alexandra Ernst, Gaël Delrue and Sylvie Willems

4. Relationship between déjà vu experiences and recognition-memory impairments in temporal-lobe epilepsy

Chris B. Martin, Seyed M. Mirsattari, Jens C. Pruessner, Jorge G. Burneo, Brent Hayman-Abello and Stefan Köhler

5. Déjà vu experiences in anxiety

Christine E. Wells, Akira R. O’Connor and Chris J. A. Moulin

6. Déjà vu and the feeling of prediction: an association with familiarity strength

Anne M. Cleary, Katherine L. McNeely-White, Andrew M. Huebert and Alexander B. Claxton

7. fMRI evidence supporting the role of memory conflict in the déjà vu experience

Josephine A. Urquhart, Magali H. Sivakumaran, Jennifer A. Macfarlane and Akira R. O’Connor

8. The the the the induction of jamais vu in the laboratory: word alienation and semantic satiation

Chris J. A. Moulin, Nicole Bell, Merita Turunen, Arina Baharin and Akira R. O’Connor

Biography

Akira O’Connor is Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of St Andrews, USA. His research interests include memory decision-making, particularly how we come to decisions about our memories when faced with multiple sources of conflicting information. His work takes both cognitive and neuroscientific approaches.

Chris Moulin is Professor at the Laboratoire de Psychologie et NeuroCognition (LPNC UMR 5105) at the Université Grenoble Alpes, France.  His research interests include the cognitive neuropsychology of memory, particularly subjective aspects of memory function, including déjà vu, metamemory and memory awareness.