Deja vu research: full transcription
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Get the guide: $8 instant download →The advent of virtual reality enabled a test of a near century old hypothesis of deja vu's origin, that it can happen when an otherwise novel scene shares a spatial layout with a previously encountered scene that was not recalled. The first virtual reality investigation of deja vu found support for this hypothesis.
When people are experiencing deja vu while on a virtual tour of a scene, they often feel that they can predict the direction of the next turn that is about to happen, even when they cannot. According to their results, participants were no more likely to actually be able to tell the future than if they were blindly guessing.
The prescient feeling that sometimes accompanies deja vu is just that, a feeling. But it sure feels real.
This transcription covers the core experimental methodology and the study's central finding on predictive feeling versus actual predictive ability. Cleary's full body of published work includes 79 professional articles and three books on memory phenomena, available through standard academic databases.
Study: Cleary, A.M. et al. (2012). Consciousness and Cognition, 21, 452-460.
Study: Cleary, A.M. and Claxton, A.B. Psychological Science.
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