Disordered memory awareness: recollective confabulation in two cases of persistent déjà vecu

Moulin, Chris J. A.; Conway, Martin; Thompson, R. G.; James, Niamh; Jones, Roy

doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2004.12.008

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“…Clinical reports of persistent and debilitating forms of the déjà experience have been made of those with dementia, temporal lobe epilepsy, migraine and schizophrenia (Kalra, Chancellor, & Zeman, 2007;Moulin et al, 2005;Neppe, 1983;Sacks, 1970), but it is not clear whether these experiences are déjà vu or déjà vécu, since the case descriptions and neuropsychological examination often provide insufficient detail to make this distinction.…”

Section: Deja Vu and Deja Vecumentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Our argument is chiefly based on a series of cases. Moulin and colleagues (Moulin, Conway, Thompson, James & Jones, 2005;Moulin, Turunen, Salter, O'Connor, Conway & Jones, 2006) describe patients with dementia who experience erroneous sensations of remembering. These patients (described in detail below) report that events have happened before, even though they are experiencing them for the first time.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Novel insights into false recollection: A model of déjà vécu

O'Connor

Lever

Moulin

2010

Cognitive Neuropsychiatry

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The thesis of this paper is that déjà experiences can be separated into two forms: déjà vu, arising from the erroneous sensation of familiarity, and déjà vécu, arising from the erroneous sensation of recollection. We summarise a series of cases for whom déjà vécu is experienced frequently and for extended periods, and seek to differentiate their experiences from 'healthy' déjà experiences by non-brain-damaged participants. In reviewing our cases, we stress two novel ideas: that déjà vécu in these cases is delusion-like; and that these cases experience déjà vécu for stimuli that are especially novel or unusual. Here we present a novel cognitive neuroscientific hypothesis of déjà vécu. This hypothesis assumes that the signal of retrieval from memory is neurally dissociable from the contents of retrieval. We suggest that a region downstream of the hippocampus signals

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Section: Deja Vu and Deja Vecumentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Novel insights into false recollection: A model of déjà vécu

O'Connor

Lever

Moulin

2010

Cognitive Neuropsychiatry

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“…Traditional case studies and then brain stimulation studies paved the way for the modern neuroscientific conceptualization of déjà vu as being associated (if not causally intertwined) with seizures and epilepsy [4,5]. Although the clinically oriented case study has even recently made up the bulk of the déjà vu literature output [6][7][8][9], there is a growing trend toward the use of modern neuroscience techniques to make inferences about brain activation that is associated with the occurrence of déjà vu experiences.…”

Section: Neuropsychology and Neurosciencementioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, little or no consensus exists for these different terms, and there is scant empiric support. The only discrimination of possible clinical relevance 7 is of déjà vu versus déjà vécu, being that it is a theoretically plausible distinction based on a case series of patients with neurological damage [9,22].…”

Section: Brain-based Inference and Déjà Vumentioning

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Recognition Without Identification, Erroneous Familiarity, and Déjà Vu

O'Connor

Moulin

2010

Curr Psychiatry Rep

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Déjà vu is characterized by the recognition of a situation concurrent with the awareness that this recognition is inappropriate. Although forms of déjà vu resolve in favor of the inappropriate recognition and therefore have behavioral consequences, typical déjà vu experiences resolve in favor of the awareness that the sensation of recognition is inappropriate.The resultant lack of behavioral modification associated with typical déjà vu means that clinicians and experimenters rely heavily on self-report when observing the experience. In this review, we focus on recent déjà vu research. We consider issues facing neuropsychological, neuroscientific, and cognitive experimental frameworks attempting to explore and experimentally generate the experience. In doing this, we suggest the need for more experimentation and a more cautious interpretation of research findings, particularly as many techniques being used to explore déjà vu are in the early stages of development.

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