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The Behavioral and Brain Sciences Nov 2023On Barzykowski and Moulin's continuum hypothesis, déjà vu and involuntary autobiographical memories (IAMs) share their underpinning neurocognitive processes. A...
On Barzykowski and Moulin's continuum hypothesis, déjà vu and involuntary autobiographical memories (IAMs) share their underpinning neurocognitive processes. A discontinuity issue for them is that familiarity and episodic recollection exhibit different neurocognitive signatures. This issue can be overcome, I say, provided the authors are ready to distinguish a déjà vécu/episodic IAM continuity and a déjà vu/semantic IAM continuity.
Topics: Humans; Recognition, Psychology; Memory, Episodic; Semantics
PubMed: 37961835
DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X23000225 -
The Behavioral and Brain Sciences Nov 2023Although involuntary autobiographical memories (IAMs) and déjà vu have important shared characteristics, in this commentary, we focus on potential differences that may...
Although involuntary autobiographical memories (IAMs) and déjà vu have important shared characteristics, in this commentary, we focus on potential differences that may question the argument that two phenomena lie on a continuum. We propose that differences in their frequency and autonoetic consciousness could be explained by different types of cues and memory representations involved in experiencing IAMs and déjà vu.
Topics: Humans; Cues; Memory, Episodic; Deja Vu; Consciousness; Mental Recall
PubMed: 37961821
DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X23000080 -
The Behavioral and Brain Sciences Nov 2023In order to understand involuntary autobiographical memories and déjà vu experiences, we argue that it is important to take an evolutionary medicine perspective. Here,...
In order to understand involuntary autobiographical memories and déjà vu experiences, we argue that it is important to take an evolutionary medicine perspective. Here, we propose that these memory anomalies can be understood as the outcomes of an inevitable design trade-off between type I and type II errors in memory processing.
Topics: Humans; Deja Vu; Memory, Episodic
PubMed: 37961816
DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X23000183 -
The Behavioral and Brain Sciences Nov 2023In our target article, we presented the idea that involuntary autobiographical memories (IAMs) and déjà vu may both be based on the same retrieval processes. Our core...
In our target article, we presented the idea that involuntary autobiographical memories (IAMs) and déjà vu may both be based on the same retrieval processes. Our core claim was thus straightforward: Both can be described as "involuntary" or spontaneous cognitions, where IAMs deliver content and déjà vu delivers only the feeling of retrieval. Our proposal resulted in 27 commentaries covering a broad range of perspectives and approaches. The majority of them have not only amplified our key arguments but also pushed our ideas further by offering extensions, refinements, discussing possible implications and providing additional empirical, neuroscientific and clinical support. The discussion launched by the commentaries proves to us the importance of bringing IAMs and déjà vu into mainstream discussions of memory retrieval processes.
Topics: Humans; Memory, Episodic; Cognition; Emotions
PubMed: 37961810
DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X23002765 -
The Behavioral and Brain Sciences Nov 2023Déjà vu and involuntary autobiographical memories (IAMs) are differentiated by a number of factors including metacognition. In contrast to IAMs, déjà vu activates...
Déjà vu and involuntary autobiographical memories (IAMs) are differentiated by a number of factors including metacognition. In contrast to IAMs, déjà vu activates regions associated with self-awareness including the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex.
Topics: Humans; Deja Vu; Brain; Perception; Metacognition
PubMed: 37961797
DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X23000201 -
The Behavioral and Brain Sciences Nov 2023Rather than a natural product, a computational analysis leads us to characterize déjà vu as a failure of memory retrieval, linked to the activation in neocortex of...
Rather than a natural product, a computational analysis leads us to characterize déjà vu as a failure of memory retrieval, linked to the activation in neocortex of familiar items from a compositional memory in the absence of hippocampal input, and to a misappropriation by the self of what is of others.
Topics: Humans; Memory; Hippocampus
PubMed: 37961795
DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X2300016X -
The Behavioral and Brain Sciences Nov 2023The target article claims that involuntary autobiographical memories and déjà vu are based on the same retrieval processes, although they result in different...
The target article claims that involuntary autobiographical memories and déjà vu are based on the same retrieval processes, although they result in different phenomenological states. Here we argue that the differential engagement of attention at various stages of memory may be one of the determinants of when common retrieval processes give rise to such different experiences.
Topics: Humans; Memory, Episodic; Attention; Mental Recall
PubMed: 37961794
DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X23000031 -
The Behavioral and Brain Sciences Nov 2023
Topics: Humans; Deja Vu; Recognition, Psychology
PubMed: 37961793
DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X23000195 -
The Behavioral and Brain Sciences Nov 2023Barzykowski and Moulin's model proposes that déjà vu and involuntary autobiographical memories are the result of a continuously active memory system that tracks the...
Barzykowski and Moulin's model proposes that déjà vu and involuntary autobiographical memories are the result of a continuously active memory system that tracks the novelty of situations. Déjà vu would only have episodic content and concern interpretation of prior experiences. We argue that these aspects of the model would gain to be clarified and explored further and we suggest possible directions.
Topics: Humans; Memory, Episodic; Semantics
PubMed: 37961792
DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X23000158 -
The Behavioral and Brain Sciences Nov 2023The proposed framework can benefit from integrating predictive processing into the explanation of déjà vu which corresponds to interrupted prediction. Déjà vu is...
The proposed framework can benefit from integrating predictive processing into the explanation of déjà vu which corresponds to interrupted prediction. Déjà vu is also accompanied by familiarity. However, considerable ambiguity is inherent in familiarity, which necessitates elaboration of this construct. Research findings on involuntary autobiographical memories and déjà vu show discrepancies, and clustering these constructs can be counterproductive for research.
Topics: Humans; Recognition, Psychology; Memory, Episodic
PubMed: 37961791
DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X2300002X