I thought I'd jump in before the new agers start to cry foul. I've tried to be fair in this article, to not dismiss any 'parapsychological' explanations out of hand, but to weigh in with scientific evaluations. There is no definitive scientific answer, the most accepted explanation remains a conjecture and I have clearly identified it as such. The link between epilepsy and deja vu is confirmed, and the fact that everyone has occasional mild epilectic seizures is also confirmed, and this does give strong circumstantial support to the electrophysiological explanation.
My research on these matters involved the "Oxford Companion to the Mind" and numerous websites. - MMGB
It's been a topic in cognitive psychology since at least 1987, when I had my first college course in cognitive psych. --
LMS
I expected as much - I've never studied psychology, but I encountered it in my courses on neurophysiology - MMGB
I can't find a reference offhand, but wasn't there a kind of silicon associative memory chip that had a failure mode wherein it would sometimes incorrectly "remember" its input? --LDC
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