Courtney Aitken

Courtney Aitken

Courtney Aitken appears on this site as first author of the 2023 Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews paper proposing a conflict account of déjà vu.

Who they are

The work of Courtney Aitken reaches this site through the paper listed below. On this site the name is tied to Memory Conflict Account of Déjà Vu.

Key papers

Aitken, C. B. A., Jentzsch, I., & O'Connor, A. R. (2023). Towards a conflict account of déjà vu: The role of memory errors and memory expectation conflict in the experience of déjà vu. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 155, 105467. What it reports: Proposes that déjà vu is a conflict between a feeling of familiarity and a concurrent judgment of novelty, and links the decline of déjà vu with age to the decline of conflict monitoring after young adulthood.

Key ideas

Memory Conflict Account of Déjà Vu: The proposal that déjà vu is a conflict between a feeling of familiarity and a concurrent judgment of novelty.

Sources

  1. Aitken, C. B. A., Jentzsch, I., & O'Connor, A. R. (2023). Towards a conflict account of déjà vu: The role of memory errors and memory expectation conflict in the experience of déjà vu. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 155, 105467.