confabulation / confabulation
Synonyms: pseudoreminiscence
Synonymes : pseudoréminiscence
Group: Human, Neurology, Neuropsychology
Groupe : Homme, Neurologie, Neuropsychologie
Definition: "the production of statements and actions that are unintentionally incongruous to the patient's history, background, present and future situation" (Dalla Barba et al., 2017, p. 44). Confabulations are used by the patient to compensate memory difficulties or deficiencies, as in the Korsakoff's syndrome.
Définition : « production de propos et d'actions qui sont involontairement incongrus par rapport à l'histoire, au contexte, à la situation présente et future du patient » (Dalla Barba et al., 2017, p. 44). Les confabulations permettent au patient de compenser des difficultés, des carences de la mémoire, comme dans le cas du syndrome de Korsakoff.
Broader term: memory disorder
Terme générique : trouble de la mémoire
Narrower terms: confabulation by content, confabulation by production mode
Termes spécifiques : confabulation par contenu, confabulation par mode de production
Related terms: false memory, forgetting, Korsakoff syndrome, Alzheimer's disease, amnestic syndrome, amnesia
Termes associés : faux souvenir, oubli, syndrome de Korsakoff, maladie d'Alzheimer, syndrome amnésique, amnésie
Disorder of: autobiographical memory, episodic memory, semantic memory
Has study methods: Confabulation Battery, Confabulation Screen, Nijmegen-Venray Confabulation List, Provoked Confabulation Test
Selected bibliography: Berlyne, N. (1972). Confabulation. The British Journal of Psychiatry, 120(554), 31–39. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.120.554.31 [Study type: literature review / Access: closed], Dalla Barba, G. (1993). Different patterns of confabulation. Cortex, 29(4), 567–581. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0010-9452(13)80281-X [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed], Dalla Barba, G., & Boissé, M.-F. (2010). Temporal consciousness and confabulation: Is the medial temporal lobe “temporal”? Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 15(1–3), 95–117. https://doi.org/10.1080/13546800902758017 [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed], Dalla Barba, G., Brazzarola, M., Marangoni, S., Barbera, C., & Zannoni, I. (2017). A longitudinal study of confabulation. Cortex, 87, 44–51. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2016.05.009 [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed], Francis, C., MacCallum, F., & Pierce, S. (2022). Interventions for confabulation: A systematic literature review. The Clinical Neuropsychologist, 36(8), 1997–2020. https://doi.org/10.1080/13854046.2021.1948612 [Study type: literature review / Access: closed], Kopelman, M. D. (1987). Two types of confabulation. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, 50(11), 1482–1487. https://doi.org/10.1136/jnnp.50.11.1482 [Study type: empirical study / Access: free], La Corte, V., Serra, M., Attali, E., Boissé, M.-F., & Barba, G. D. (2010). Confabulation in Alzheimer’s disease and amnesia: A qualitative account and a new taxonomy. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 16(6), 967–974. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1355617710001001 [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed], Moscovitch, M. (1997). Strategic retrieval and the frontal lobes: Evidence from confabulation and amnesia. Neuropsychologia, 35(7), 1017–1034. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0028-3932(97)00028-6 [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed], Moscovitch, M. (1995). Confabulation. In D. L. Schacter (Ed.), Memory distortions: How minds, brains, and societies reconstruct the past (pp. 226–251). Harvard University Press. [Study type: literature review / Access: closed], Schnider, A., Von Daniken, C., & Gutbrod, K. (1996). The mechanisms of spontaneous and provoked confabulations. Brain, 119(4), 1365–1375. https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/119.4.1365 [Study type: empirical study / Access: free]