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International seminar on d・・vu and memory

 

 

March 15-16, 2006

Kyoto University, Faculty of Education, Kyoto, Japan

 

This seminar attempts to promote the multidisciplinary study of d・・vu and memory. D・・vu is one of the nodal points of memory and recent approaches to its scientific study are diverse. Recent cognitive and neurological approaches suggest that cognitive, emotional as well as psychological disorders raise many integrative issues with regard to the mechanism of d・・vu. This is the first special seminar on this topic developed by our research group and it aims to encouraging researchers from various fields (cognitive psychology, cognitive sciences, clinical psychology. and psychiatry) to discuss the challenges and opportunities offered by a cross-disciplinary approach to the study of d・/span>j・/span> vu and memory.

 

Invited Speakers

Alan Brown. (Southern Methodist University)

Elizabeth J. Marsh (Duke University)

 

Program

March 15

2pm-4pm  Session 1 :D・・vu, jamais vu cognitive mechanism

Sugimori, E. (Kyoto Univ. Graduate student) Factors of output-monitoring error

Matsuda, K. (Kyoto Univ. PostDoc researcher) D・・vu experiences arise from stimuli typicality

Kusumi, T.  D・・ vu and Jamais vu phenomenonPsychological aspects of metacognition and similarity   [PDF]

Furukawa M, Moriyama T, Watanabe S and Tsukahara Y. (Future Univ.-Hakodate)  An experimental approach to elicit jamais vu

Commentators: Brown, A. & Marsh, E.J.

 

4:30pm-6pm  Keynote Lecture 1   

Elizabeth J. Marsh (Duke University)

The nature and incidence of d・・vu, plus findings from an implicit memory investigation

1 Background information on d・・vu

   Methods of investigating the d・・vu experience,

   General incidence,

   Nature of the experience,

   Physical variables related to d・・vu,

   Psychological variables related to d・・vu,

2 Implicit memory interpretation of d・・vu

 

March 16

2pm-4pm  Session 2 : D・・vu, jamais vu & psychological disorders

Kawabe, T. (Kyoto Univ. Researcher)  The subjective contents of the d・・vu experiences

Kato, N. (Kyoto Univ. Graduate student)  Assessing individuals who have never experienced d・・vu

Fukao, K. (Kyoto Univ. Hospital)  D・・vu and Jamais Vu as Epileptic Symptoms

Commentators: Brown, A. & Marsh, E.J.

 

4:30pm-6pm  Keynote Lecture  

Alan Brown. (Southern Methodist University)

The relationship of physical and psychological pathology to d・・vu, plus findings from a split-perception investigation

1 Background information on d・・vu

    Jamais vu,

    Physical pathology related to d・・vu,

    Psychological pathology related to d・・vu,

    Neurological interpretations of d・・vu, etc.

2 Split, or double, perception interpretation of d・・vu

 

Organizer: Takashi Kusumi (Kyoto University, Faculty of Education)

 

References

Brown, A.S. 2003 A review of the d・・vu experience Psychological Bulletin, Vol.129 394-413 

Brown, A.S. 2004 The d・・vu experience. Psychology Press

Kusumi, T.  2006 Human metacognition and the d・・vu phenomenon. In K.Fujita & S. Itakura (Eds.) Diversity of Cognition: Evolution, Development, Domestication, and Pathology (pp.302-314). Kyoto University Press  [PDF]

 

Links

GLENN, D. The Tease of Memory: Psychologists are dusting off 19th-century explanations of d・・vu. Have we been here before? 

Giving d・・vu: a second look

Vernon Neppe

 

March 11, 2006