Confabulation : views from neuroscience, psychiatry, psychology, and philosophy
Hirstein, WilliamContributor
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2009.
When people confabulate, they make an ill-grounded claim that they honestly believe is true, for example recalling an event from their childhood that never actually happened. This interdisciplinary book brings together some of the leading thinkers on confabulation in neuroscience, psychiatry psychology, & philosophy.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
When people confabulate, they make an ill-grounded claim that they honestly believe is true, for example recalling an event from their childhood that never actually happened. This interdisciplinary book brings together some of the leading thinkers on confabulation in neuroscience, psychiatry psychology, & philosophy.
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Introduction : what is confabulation? / William Hirstein -- Confabulation in anterior communicating artery syndrome / JohnDeLuca -- False memories : a kind of confabulation in non-clinical subjects / Lauren French, Maryanne Garry, and Elizabeth Loftus -- The cognitive consequences of forced fabrication : evidence from studies of eyewitness suggestibility / Quin M. Chrobak and Maria S. Zaragoza -- Confabulation, the self, and ego functions : the ego dysequilibrium theory / Todd E. Feinberg -- He is not my father, and that is not my arm : accounting for misidentifications of people and limbs / William Hirstein and V. S. Ramachandran -- Delusional confabulations and self-deception / Alfred R. Mele -- Confabulation as a psychiatric symptom / P. J. McKenna, E. Lorente-Rovira, and G. E. Berrios -- Confabulation and delusion / Max Coltheart and Martha Turner -- for hemiplegia : a confabulatory state / Kenneth M. Heilman -- Everyday confabulation / Thalia Wheatley -- Temporal consciousness and confabulation : escape from unconscious explanatory idols / Gianfranco Dalla Barba -- Disentangling the motivational theories of confabulation / Aikaterini Fotopoulou.
False memory syndrome
Self-deception
Mythomania
Memory Disorders
Denial (Psychology)
Delusions
Brain
Mental Recall
Behavioral Symptoms
Neurobehavioral Manifestations
Defense Mechanisms
Memory
Central Nervous System
Learning
Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms
Neurologic Manifestations
Nervous System
Behavior
Signs and Symptoms
Psychiatry and Psychology
Mental Processes
Nervous System Diseases
Anatomy
Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms
Diseases
Psychological Phenomena and Processes
Psychiatric Disorders, Individual
Psychiatry
Health & Biological Sciences