Jamais vu explained
In psychology, jamais vu (in French ʒamɛ vy/), a French loanword meaning "never seen", is the phenomenon of experiencing a situation that one recognizes in some fashion, but that nonetheless seems novel and unfamiliar.
Overview
Jamais vu involves a sense of eeriness and the observer’s impression of experiencing something for the first time, despite rationally knowing that they have experienced it before.[1]
Jamais vu is commonly explained as when a person momentarily does not recognize a word or, less commonly, a person or place, that they already know. Jamais vu is sometimes associated with certain types of aphasia, amnesia, and epilepsy.
The phenomenon is often grouped with déjà vu and presque vu (tip of the tongue, literally "almost seen").[2] It is generally a rare phenomenon.
Experiment
A study by Chris Moulin of Leeds University asked 92 volunteers to write out "door" 30 times in 60 seconds. In July 2006 at the 4th International Conference on Memory in Sydney he reported that 68 percent of volunteers showed symptoms of jamais vu, such as beginning to doubt that "door" was a real word. Moulin believes that a similar brain fatigue underlies some symptoms of schizophrenia and Capgras delusion. Moulin suggests that people with these conditions could be suffering from chronic jamais vu.
Causes
Jamais vu can be caused by epileptic seizures.[3]
Related phenomena
having the strong sensation that an event or experience being experienced, has already been experienced in the past, whether it has actually happened or not. In French, this means 'already seen'.
See also
Further reading
- Book: Sno . Herman N. . Déjà vu and jamais vu . 338–347 . https://books.google.com/books?id=Ksr36XYr8t4C&pg=PA338 . 10.1017/CBO9780511530197.016 . Berrios . German E. . Hodges . John R. . Memory Disorders in Psychiatric Practice . 2000 . Cambridge University Press . 978-0-521-57671-0 .
- Cheng . Lionel Tim-Ee . Chan . Lai Peng . Tan . Ban Hock . Chen . Robert Chun . Tay . Kiang Hiong . Ling . Moi Lin . Tan . Bien Soo . Déjà Vu or Jamais Vu? How the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Experience Influenced a Singapore Radiology Department's Response to the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Epidemic . American Journal of Roentgenology . June 2020 . 214 . 6 . 1206–1210 . 10.2214/AJR.20.22927 . 32130047 . 212417312 . free .
- Burwell . Rebecca D . Templer . Victoria L . Jamais vu all over again . Nature Neuroscience . September 2017 . 20 . 9 . 1194–1196 . 10.1038/nn.4625 . 28849788 . 6101242 .
- Moulin . Chris J. A. . Bell . Nicole . Turunen . Merita . Baharin . Arina . O’Connor . Akira R. . induction of jamais vu in the laboratory: word alienation and semantic satiation . Memory . 9 August 2021 . 29 . 7 . 933–942 . 10.1080/09658211.2020.1727519 . 32079491 . 10023/21466 . 211231684 . free .
- Book: 10.4324/9780203485446-13 . Jamais Vu . The Deja Vu Experience . 2004 . 115–124 . 978-0-203-48544-6 .
- Struck . Terry H. . Jamais vu episodes in relationship to baclofen treatment: A case report . Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation . June 2002 . 83 . 6 . 846–849 . 10.1053/apmr.2002.32828 . 12048665 .
- Marcial . Dennis . Jamais Vu . The Quiet Corner Interdisciplinary Journal . 9 September 2016 . 1 . 2 .
- Ullian . John A. . Matson . Christine C. . The 'Jamais-vu Phenomenon' in Medical Education . Academic Medicine . March 2001 . 76 . 3 . 217 . 10.1097/00001888-200103000-00004 . 11242567 . free .
Notes and References
- Book: Larner, A. J. . A Dictionary of Neurological Signs . 2010-11-12 . Springer Science & Business Media . 978-1-4419-7095-4 . 199 . en.
- Book: Blom, Jan Dirk . A Dictionary of Hallucinations . 2009-12-08 . Springer Science & Business Media . 978-1-4419-1223-7 . en.
- http://www.epilepsy.com/Epilepsy/seizure_simplepartial "Epilepsy and seizure information for patients and health professionals – Simple Partial Seizures", retrieved 2011-09-08
