Scientists hope this could give better insight into obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), where repeated actions are often a symptom.
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It’s all got to do with repetition as your brain tries to make sense of your surroundings. But as weird as deja vu can be, it’s opposite is sometimes even stranger.Jamais vu may involve looking at a familiar face and finding it suddenly unusual or unfamiliar. Musicians often experience this when losing their way in a very familiar passage of music. You might even have had it going to a familiar place and becoming disorientated or seeing it with ‘new eyes’.
In daily life, it can be provoked by repetition or staring, and with this in mind, tests were conducted in a controlled environment where people repeated something over and over, until it became ‘meaningless and confusing’. In a second experiment, researchers used only the word “the”, figuring that it was the most common. This time, 55% of people stopped writing for reasons consistent with the definition of jamais vu .
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