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The Confabulating Mind

Armin Schnider

2008284 pagesabout 4–7 hours
2008
first published
  • 2008Oxford University Press, USA · 284 pages · ENGISBN 9780199206759
  • 2017Oxford University Press · 324 pages · ENGISBN 9780198789680

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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