Almost all of us have experienced what is called deja vu, a strange feeling that says that the new events we are feeling we've actually experienced much earlier. These events could be a new place that was visited, conversations that are underway, or a TV show being watched. More surprisingly, we also often can not afford to be really remember when and how previous experiences that happened in detail. All we knew was a mysterious sensation which makes us not familiar with the new event. Strangeness of the phenomenon of deja vu is then spawned several metaphysical theories that try to explain because musababnya. One is the theory that deja vu is actually derived from a similar event ever experienced by our souls in one's life previous reincarnations in the past. How to explain his own psychology?
Related to Age and Degenerative Diseases
At first, some scientists think that deja vu occurs when the optical sensation received by the eye to the brain (and perceived) first rather than the same sensations received by the other eye, causing a feeling familiar to something that is actually the first time be seen. Theory known as "optical pathway delay" was broken when in December last year found that people can experience deja vu butapun through the senses of smell, hearing, and perabaannya. In addition, before Chris Moulin of the University of Leeds, England, has been found also sufferers of chronic déjà vu: the people who are often able to describe in detail the events that never happened. They felt no need to watch TV because they feel have been watching a TV show before (though not yet), and they even feel no need to go to the doctor to treat 'penyakit'nya because they felt it was going to a doctor and can tell the details during his visit ! Instead of misperceptions or delusions, researchers began to look at the causes of deja vu in the brain and our memory. Recently, an experiment in mice may provide new insight about the origin of deja vu the truth. Susemu Tonegawa, a neuroscientist at MIT, bred a number of mice lacking the dentate gyrus, a small part of the hippocampus, which is functioning normally. This section previously known to be associated with episodic memory, ie memory
about our personal experiences. When encounter a situation, the dentate gyrus will record the signs of visual, audio, smell, time, and other signs of the senses to be matched with our episodic memory. If no match is found, this situation would be 'registered' as a new experience and recorded for future comparisons. According to Tonegawa, normal mice have the same ability as men in matching the similarities and differences between several situations. However, as expected, the mice that the dentate gyrus was not functioning normally and then have difficulty in distinguishing the two situations are similar but not identical. This, he added, could explain why the experience of deja vu increase with age or the emergence of degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease: loss or damage to the cells in the dentate gyrus due to two things make it hard to determine whether something is' new 'or' old '.
Creating 'Deja Vu' in the Laboratory
One of the things that complicate the researchers in unraveling the mystery of deja vu is
natural appearance of a spontaneous and unpredictable. A researcher can not
simply asking participants to come and 'told' they experienced deja vu in a sterile lab conditions. Deja vu usually happens in everyday life, where it is not possible for researchers to continually connect the participants with brain scanners are large and heavy. In addition, the lack of deja vu happens to follow participants anywhere at any time is not an efficient and effective thing to do. However, some researchers have managed to simulate conditions similar to deja vu. As reported by LiveScience, Kenneth Peller from Northwestern University found a simple way to make someone have a 'false memories'. The participants were shown a picture, but they were asked to imagine a totally different picture in their minds. Having done several times, the participants were then asked to choose whether a particular image they actually see or just imagined. Apparently the pictures that are only imagined participants often claimed they actually saw. Therefore, déjà vu may occur when by chance an event experienced by someone similar or identical to the picture imaginable.
LiveScience also reported the trial Akira O'Connor and Chris Moulin of the University of Leeds in creating the sensation of deja vu through hypnosis. The participants were first asked to recall a series of lists of words. Then they were hypnotized so that they 'forget' those words. When the participants are shown a list of similar words, half of them reported a similar sensation like dejavu, while the other half are very confident that they are experiencing is really deja vu. They say this happens because the brain areas associated with familiarity plagued by hypnosis works.
Related to Age and Degenerative Diseases
At first, some scientists think that deja vu occurs when the optical sensation received by the eye to the brain (and perceived) first rather than the same sensations received by the other eye, causing a feeling familiar to something that is actually the first time be seen. Theory known as "optical pathway delay" was broken when in December last year found that people can experience deja vu butapun through the senses of smell, hearing, and perabaannya. In addition, before Chris Moulin of the University of Leeds, England, has been found also sufferers of chronic déjà vu: the people who are often able to describe in detail the events that never happened. They felt no need to watch TV because they feel have been watching a TV show before (though not yet), and they even feel no need to go to the doctor to treat 'penyakit'nya because they felt it was going to a doctor and can tell the details during his visit ! Instead of misperceptions or delusions, researchers began to look at the causes of deja vu in the brain and our memory. Recently, an experiment in mice may provide new insight about the origin of deja vu the truth. Susemu Tonegawa, a neuroscientist at MIT, bred a number of mice lacking the dentate gyrus, a small part of the hippocampus, which is functioning normally. This section previously known to be associated with episodic memory, ie memory
about our personal experiences. When encounter a situation, the dentate gyrus will record the signs of visual, audio, smell, time, and other signs of the senses to be matched with our episodic memory. If no match is found, this situation would be 'registered' as a new experience and recorded for future comparisons. According to Tonegawa, normal mice have the same ability as men in matching the similarities and differences between several situations. However, as expected, the mice that the dentate gyrus was not functioning normally and then have difficulty in distinguishing the two situations are similar but not identical. This, he added, could explain why the experience of deja vu increase with age or the emergence of degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease: loss or damage to the cells in the dentate gyrus due to two things make it hard to determine whether something is' new 'or' old '.
Creating 'Deja Vu' in the Laboratory
One of the things that complicate the researchers in unraveling the mystery of deja vu is
natural appearance of a spontaneous and unpredictable. A researcher can not
simply asking participants to come and 'told' they experienced deja vu in a sterile lab conditions. Deja vu usually happens in everyday life, where it is not possible for researchers to continually connect the participants with brain scanners are large and heavy. In addition, the lack of deja vu happens to follow participants anywhere at any time is not an efficient and effective thing to do. However, some researchers have managed to simulate conditions similar to deja vu. As reported by LiveScience, Kenneth Peller from Northwestern University found a simple way to make someone have a 'false memories'. The participants were shown a picture, but they were asked to imagine a totally different picture in their minds. Having done several times, the participants were then asked to choose whether a particular image they actually see or just imagined. Apparently the pictures that are only imagined participants often claimed they actually saw. Therefore, déjà vu may occur when by chance an event experienced by someone similar or identical to the picture imaginable.
LiveScience also reported the trial Akira O'Connor and Chris Moulin of the University of Leeds in creating the sensation of deja vu through hypnosis. The participants were first asked to recall a series of lists of words. Then they were hypnotized so that they 'forget' those words. When the participants are shown a list of similar words, half of them reported a similar sensation like dejavu, while the other half are very confident that they are experiencing is really deja vu. They say this happens because the brain areas associated with familiarity plagued by hypnosis works.




