The Confabulating Mind
Subtitle: How the Brain Creates Reality
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Dec 26, 2017
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780198789680
Description: Confabulation denotes the recitation of memories about events and experiences that never happened. Based on multiple case examples, The Confabulating Mind provides an in-depth review of the presentations, the causative diseases, and the mechanisms of this phenomenon and compares confabulation with normal false memories, as they occur in healthy adults and children. Memory-related confabulations are compared with false statements made by patients who confuse people, places, or their own health status, as this happens in disorders like déjà vu, paramnesic misidentification, and anosognosia.
Notes: Source title: The Confabulating Mind: How the Brain Creates Reality