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The Deja Vu Experience

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  • Hardback: 248 pages
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  • Published: May 2004
  • ISBN: 978-1-84169-075-9
  • Publisher: Psychology Press

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Series: Essays in Cognitive Psychology Series.

Most of us have been perplexed by a strange sense of familiarity when doing something for the first time. We feel that we have been here before, or done this before, but know for sure that this is impossible. In fact, according to numerous surveys, about two-thirds of us have experienced déjà vu at least once, and most of us have had multiple experiences.

There are a number of credible scientific interpretations of déjà vu, and this book summarizes the broad range of published work from philosophy, religion, neurology, sociology, memory, perception, psychopathology, and psychopharmacology. This book also includes discussion of cognitive functioning in retrieval and familiarity, neuronal transmission, and double perception during the déjà vu experience.

Table of Contents

Ch 1: Introduction

Ch 2: Defining the Déjà vu Experience

Ch 3: Methods of Investigating Déjà vu

Ch 4: General incidence of déjà vu

Ch 5: Nature of the Déjà vu experience

Ch 6: Physical and psychological variables related to déjà vu

Ch 7: Physiopathology and déjà vu

Ch 8: Psychopathology and déjà vu

Ch 9: Jamais vu

Ch 10: Parapsychological Interpretations of Déjà vu

Ch 11: Psychodynamic Interpretations of Déjà vu

Ch 12: Dual Process Explanations of Déjà vu

Ch 13: Neurological Explanations of Déjà vu

Ch 14: Memory Explanations of Déjà vu

Ch 15: Double Perception Explanations of Déjà Vu

Ch 16: It's Like Déjà vu All Over Again

References

Author Index

Subject Index

Footnotes

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Appendix A: Descriptions of déjà vu experiences

Appendix B: Summary of scientific explanations of déjà vu

Appendix C: References to déjà vu in artistic and literary works