Using natural language processing to characterize the phenomenology of déjà vu
Open MIND 2026 Sarah Nicole Horne, Anne M. Cleary, Joshua Prasad et al.
Around two decades ago, cognitive psychologists began empirically studying déjà vu—the odd sensation that one is re-experiencing something from the past while being certain of the situation's novelty. Prior work, investigating déjà vu's subjective phenomenology by soliciting retrospective reports in a survey, uncovered déjà vu was relatively positive in its emotionality, and involved language...