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Deja Vu Recreated in a Lab Setting

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the haven't-i-given-you-funding-before dept.

esocid writes writes to tell us BBC News is reporting that scientists may have found a way to study deja vu, that uneasy feeling you have seen something before. Using hypnosis, scientists claim to be able to incorrectly trigger the portion of the brain responsible for recognition of something familiar. From the article: "Two key processes are thought to occur when someone recognizes a familiar object or scene. First, the brain searches through memory traces to see if the contents of that scene have been observed before. If they have, a separate part of the brain then identifies the scene or object as being familiar. In deja vu, this second process may occur by mistake, so that a feeling of familiarity is triggered by a novel object or scene."

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  1. Dupe! by taxman_10m · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've seen this story before.

    1. Re:Dupe! by Sancho · · Score: 3, Funny

      I'm not the first guy who fell in love with a woman that he met at a restaurant who turned out to be the daughter of a kidnapped scientist only to lose her to her childhood lover who she last saw on a deserted island who then turned out fifteen years later to be the leader of the French underground.

  2. Dupe!!! by Red+Flayer · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oh wait... Never mind. My bad.

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    1. Re:Dupe!!! by QuantumFTL · · Score: 5, Funny

      Ok, let's be honest. How many of us came in here just to make that exact same joke?

      Actually I was, but then I got a weird feeling that I'd seen that joke on here before...

  3. It's Official by Average_Joe_Sixpack · · Score: 5, Funny

    Scientists have officially ran out of things to study

  4. I'll take "obvious joke" for 500, Alex by cliveholloway · · Score: 4, Funny

    All that work - and all they had to do was read Slashdot headlines for a few weeks.

    *rimshot*

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  5. You've just experienced Vuja De! by spun · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's the feeling that you will be reading the exact same article tomorrow.

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  6. Of course it happened in a lab setting by Biff+Stu · · Score: 3, Funny

    They needed to reproduce their results!

  7. Re:Deja-huh?!? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's called "Alzheimer's."

  8. It's the Mind by Kelson · · Score: 3, Funny

    Tonight on "It's the Mind", we examine the phenomenon of déjà vu. That strange feeling we sometimes get that we've lived... through something before, that what is happening now has... already... happened?

    *runs*

  9. Every Solaris admin know to ignore memory errors by wsanders · · Score: 3, Funny

    Just the other day...

    > Jul 25 04:11:11 blah UDBH Syndrome 0xb6 Memory Module Board 3 J3801
    > Jul 25 04:11:11 blah SUNW,UltraSPARC-II: [ID 436398 kern.info] [AFT0] errID 0x000a3f92.c551de55 ECC Data Bit 30 was in error and corrected
    > Jul 25 04:11:11 blah SUNW,UltraSPARC-II: [ID 858871 kern.info] [AFT0] errID 0x000a3f92.c551de55 Corrected Memory Error on Board 3 J3801 is Persistent
    > Jul 25 04:11:11 blah SUNW,UltraSPARC-II: [ID 888460 kern.info] [AFT0] Corrected Memory Error detected by CPU10, errID 0x000a3f92.c551de55

    As the hardware gets older these errors become more frequent. Leftover form the dot-com boom days, they can be safely ignored, and one just keeps on drinking.

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