DÉJÀ VU

Presented by: De La Torre, Liea Alexi B.

Marzo, Lyka Mae A.
Silapan, Denzee Jay T.
 DÉJÀ VU
The term déjà vu is French and means, literally, "already
seen." Those who have experienced the feeling describe it
as an overwhelming sense of familiarity with something
that shouldn't be familiar at all.
 DÉJÀ VECU
DÉJÀ VISITE “Already
experienced or
“Already visited” live through”

Arthur Funkhouser
MAJOR CONCEPTS/FINDINGS OF DÉJÀ VU
01 WHO EXPERIENCES DÉJÀ VU THE MOST
AND WHAT DOES THIS TELL US ?
• Young people experience déjà vu the most. Having said this,
depending on how old you are, you may still have to wait a
while until you have your first déjà vu experience.

02 WHAT CAUSES DÉJÀ VU ?

• It is still a mystery.

03 HOW DO SCIENTISTS INVESTIGATE DÉJÀ VU?

• Observational Studies
• Scientists think déjà vu might be a hiccup in the process of
memory consolidation.
• Déjà vu studies must depend on
personal descriptions and
recollection for data.
• Emile Boirac and Sigmund Freud
They have since determined that
the medial temporal lobe is
involved in our conscious memory.

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• Art Markman, Ph.D., explains deja vu as a
device our brains use to create a sense of
familiarity in a particular situation using
source memories as context clues.
• French psychiatrist Francois-Leon Arnaud
wrote about a guy named Louis. He
suffered from almost constant déjà vu.
 Déjà vu is an interesting and unusual
experience where something feels very
familiar, but we know it should not feel as
familiar as it does. The experience is
important because it shows us that
remembering happens with a series of
CONCLUSION steps, some of which can go wrong.
Young people have déjà vu the most, and
this may actually be a sign that young
people are very good at spotting when
their brains start telling them that things
are more familiar than they ought to feel.
It is very hard to do experiments to make
people have déjà vu and we still do not
know what actually causes it
 Déjà vu Déjà vu
feelings are might
typically indicate a
harmless good
memory

IMPLICATIONS
Déjà vu
often occurs
suddenly — with
no warning —
and is fleeting in
duration

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 Although déjà vu has been studied as a
phenomenon for over a hundred years and
RECOMMENDATION researchers have advanced tens of theories
about its cause, there is no simple explanation for
what it means or why it happens. Perhaps as
technology advances and we learn more about
how the brain works, we will also learn more
about why we experience this strange
phenomenon.
 REFERENCES
 https://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-
myth/extrasensory-perceptions/question657.htm

 https://kids.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/frym.2015.00001
 https://www.brainfacts.org/thinking-sensing-and-
behaving/thinking-and-awareness/2018/what-is-deja-vu-101818

 https://m.wikihow.com/Get-Rid-of-the-%27deja-Vu%27-Feeling
 https://www.toptenz.net/10-fascinating-psychological-
phenomena.php?fbclid=IwAR2IFGHCaGGAsT45AOH2kRa18zRaa
2YSvFE1UAKFyqaAwWJBRclK4DKiD7k
THANKS!