FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology·October 5, 2025·8 min readDo You Get Déjà Vu? Memory Glitches Make Time Feel RepeatedDéjà vu—the eerie feeling that a new moment has happened before—has puzzled scientists and philosophers for centuries. Neuroscientists now believe it’s a normal brain glitch tied to how memory and perception interact.Read More
FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology·September 23, 2023·5 min readJamais Vu: When the Familiar Turns Eerily NewRepetition in the brain gives rise to two peculiar phenomena: déjà vu and its lesser-known counterpart, jamais vu. The latter makes familiar experiences feel eerily new and unsettling.Read More
FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology·November 6, 2019·5 min read‘I knew that was going to happen:’ Déjà vu and the ‘postdictive’ biasWhen intense feelings of prediction accompanied deja vu, they were strongly correlated with feelings of postdiction. High degrees of familiarity that accompany deja vu also carry through to postdictive bias.Read More
FeaturedPsychology·April 13, 2016·3 min readSeen That Before: What Causes Déjà Vu?Researchers investigate why we experience episodes of déjà vu.Read More
