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Deja Vu, Again and Again

Understanding memory through the unusual syndrome of deja vecu. Episodic memories (deja vu) consist of two aspects: the information content, or "memory trace," and an accompanying experience of recollection. It's that experience, a little bit of consciousness attached to a memory, that lets us know that we are calling up something from the past. If someone experienced that feeling constantly, without any memory trace attached, they would feel as if they were "remembering the present." In other words, deja vecu.

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