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The Deja Vu Experience

Disciplines:
psychology
parapsychology/déjà vu
cognitive science/cognition
history/brown

Summary

Alan S. Brown's 2004 comprehensive review of the scientific literature on déjà vu — covering its frequency, triggers, neurological basis, and psychological meaning — the most complete empirical treatment of the phenomenon.

Core Contribution

Established déjà vu as a legitimate scientific phenomenon worthy of serious empirical investigation rather than dismissal — and the review of dual-processing theories (briefly activating recognition before context) provided the cognitive framework that later neurological research would refine.

Historical Influences

Alan S. Brown

Intellectual Lineage

Alan S. Brown ResearchSMU

Allied Works

An Experiment with Time Lucid Dreaming

Contemporaries & Peers

Art Funkhouser's work

Minds Influenced

Déjà vu scienceJungian tradition

Intellectual Posterity

The Déjà Vu ExperienceDéjà vu research

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