The Confabulating Mind: How the Brain Creates Reality

The Confabulating Mind: How the Brain Creates Reality
ISBN-10
0198789688
ISBN-13
9780198789680
Category
Medical
Pages
321
Language
English
Published
2017-10-26
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Author
Armin Schnider

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.

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