Chris J. A. Moulin: 2 ideas worth knowing

2 ideas from Chris J. A. Moulin, each explained in a minute and credited to the original work. Free on Savvy.

Déjà vu might be your brain running a memory error-check
Roughly two-thirds of people report the eerie sense of having lived a moment before. Researcher Anne Cleary has recreated déjà vu in the lab using virtual scenes with familiar spat…
— Anne M. Cleary; Chris J. A. Moulin, Déjà vu
Write the same word thirty times and it can stop looking like a word
Jamais vu, French for 'never seen,' is the eerie mirror image of deja vu: something completely familiar suddenly feels brand new and strange. Psychologist Chris Moulin triggered it…
— Chris J. A. Moulin, The Cognitive Neuropsychology of Deja Vu

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