Anne Cleary

Anne Cleary

Anne Cleary appears on this site as first author of the 2018 Psychological Science paper on déjà vu as an illusion of prediction.

Who they are

The work of Anne Cleary reaches this site through the paper listed below. On this site the name is tied to Déjà Vu.

Key papers

Cleary, A. M., & Claxton, A. B. (2018). Déjà vu: An illusion of prediction. Psychological Science, 29(4), 635-644. What it reports: Participants walked a path that resembled one experienced earlier without remembering it. Greater resemblance raised reports of déjà vu, which did not improve predictions of the next turn but raised confidence in them.

Key ideas

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

Sources

  1. Cleary, A. M., & Claxton, A. B. (2018). Déjà vu: An illusion of prediction. Psychological Science, 29(4), 635-644.