Something New in Deja Vu

Researches in the UK report that they’ve been able to recreate deja vu in the laboratory using hypnosis:

Two key processes are thought to occur when someone recognises a familiar object or scene.
First, the brain searches through memory traces to see if the contents of that scene have been observed before.
If they have, a separate part of the brain then identifies the scene or object as being familiar.
In deja vu, this second process may occur by mistake, so that a feeling of familiarity is triggered by a novel object or scene.