Alan S. Brown

Alan S. Brown

Alan S. Brown appears on this site as author of the 2003 Psychological Bulletin review of the déjà vu experience, which gathered more than a century of research and sorted proposed explanations into four groups.

Who they are

The work of Alan S. Brown reaches this site through the paper listed below. On this site the name is tied to Déjà Vu.

Key papers

Brown, A. S. (2003). A review of the déjà vu experience. Psychological Bulletin, 129(3), 394-413. What it reports: Reviews more than a century of research on déjà vu. Surveys show the experience is common and less frequent with age, and proposed explanations fall into four groups: dual processing, neurological, memory and attentional.

Key ideas

Déjà Vu: The feeling that a present moment has already been lived, held beside the knowledge that it has not.


Sources

  1. Brown, A. S. (2003). A review of the déjà vu experience. Psychological Bulletin, 129(3), 394-413.