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fMRI evidence supporting the role of memory conflict in the déjà vu experience

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20/09/2018
Author
Urquhart, Josephine A.
Sivakumaran, Magali H.
Macfarlane, Jennifer A
O'Connor, Akira R.
Keywords
Familiarity
Conflict
Déjà vu
fMRI
Medial prefrontal cortex
RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
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Abstract
Attempts to generate déjà vu experimentally have largely focused on engineering partial familiarity for stimuli, relying on an ensuing, but unprompted evaluation of conflict to generate the experience. Without verification that experimentally-generated familiarity is accompanied by the awareness of stimulus novelty, these experimental procedures potentially provide an incomplete déjà vu analogue. We used a modified version of the Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) false memory procedure to generate both familiarity and novelty within a déjà vu analogue—we coupled experimentally-generated familiarity with cues indicating that the familiarity was erroneous, using this additional source of mnemonic information to generate cognitive conflict in our participants. We collected fMRI and behavioural data from 21 participants, 16 of whom reported déjà vu. Using univariate contrasts we identified brain regions associated with mnemonic conflict, including the anterior cingulate cortex, medial prefrontal cortex and parietal cortex. This is the first experiment to image an analogue of the déjà vu experience in healthy volunteers. The increased likelihood of déjà vu reports to DRM critical lures correctly identified as “new”, and the activation of neural substrates supporting the experience of cognitive conflict during déjà vu, suggest that the resolution of memory conflict may play an integral role in déjà vu.
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Urquhart , J A , Sivakumaran , M H , Macfarlane , J A & O'Connor , A R 2018 , ' fMRI evidence supporting the role of memory conflict in the déjà vu experience ' , Memory , vol. Latest Articles . https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2018.1524496
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Memory
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Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2018.1524496
ISSN
0965-8211
Type
Journal article
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© 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created accepted version manuscript following peer review and as such may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2018.1524496
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This research was funded by an anonymous donation to the School of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of St Andrews.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/18521

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