Ask Neil Anything: How does deja vu work?

After listener Frank called in last week to ask how deja vu works, neurologist and director at the Epilepsy Research Centre, Sam Berkovic, provided the answer.

“It’s a little glitch in the brain … Deja vu is a glitch in the memory system which resides in the temporal lobes … and when that has a glitch like that we get – very commonly – deja vu.”

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