Josephine Urquhart

Josephine Urquhart

Josephine Urquhart appears on this site as first author of the imaging study of memory conflict in a laboratory analogue of déjà vu, published in Memory.

Who they are

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

Key papers

Urquhart, J. A., Sivakumaran, M. H., Macfarlane, J. A., & O'Connor, A. R. (2018). fMRI evidence supporting the role of memory conflict in the déjà vu experience. Memory, 29(7), 921-932. What it reports: A word-list task paired false familiarity with cues showing that it was mistaken. Sixteen of 21 participants reported déjà vu, and imaging showed activity in regions linked to conflict.

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.

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

Sources

  1. Urquhart, J. A., Sivakumaran, M. H., Macfarlane, J. A., & O'Connor, A. R. (2018). fMRI evidence supporting the role of memory conflict in the déjà vu experience. Memory, 29(7), 921-932.