Deja vu is one of the most complex and subjective of all memory phenomena. It is an infrequent and striking mental experience, where the feeling of familiarity is combined with the knowledge that this feeling is false. While until recently it was an aspect of memory largely overlooked by mainstream cognitive psychology, this book brings together the growing scientific literature on deja vu making the case for it as a metacognitive phenomenon.

The Cognitive Neuropsychology of Deja Vu reviews clinical, experimental and neuroimaging methods focusing on how memory disorders and...

Deja vu is one of the most complex and subjective of all memory phenomena. It is an infrequent and striking mental experience, where the feeling of familiarity is combined with the knowledge that this feeling is false. While until recently it was an aspect of memory largely overlooked by mainstream cognitive psychology, this book brings together the growing scientific literature on deja vu making the case for it as a metacognitive phenomenon.

The Cognitive Neuropsychology of Deja Vu reviews clinical, experimental and neuroimaging methods focusing on how memory disorders and...