The Importance of a Schema

The experience of deja vu is just an extreme reaction that your memory uses to tell you that you're in a familiar situation. If the configuration is nearly identical, so if you go into a place that's nearly identical in configuration to one that you've experienced before, then you get this powerful feeling of knowing. Now, I want to thank someone who was particularly helpful in helping me to find some of this research: Annette Taylor, PhD. She's the professor of psychological sciences, University of San Diego,. Also, she is the editor of a great book called The Encyclopedia of Human Memory and available on Amazon.