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Deja Vu Recreated in a Lab Setting

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. Deja Vu by roman_mir · · Score: 0, Redundant

    A deja vu is usually a glitch in the Matrix. It happens when they change something...

  2. Why Deja Vu occurs... by AccUser · · Score: 0, Redundant

    In deja vu, this second process may occur by mistake, so that a feeling of familiarity is triggered by a novel object or scene.

    Or there is an alteration in the Matrix...

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  3. Re:Dupe! by kimvette · · Score: 0, Redundant

    havn't I read this story before? It's a dupe!!!

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