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The confabulating mind : how the brain creates reality / Armin Schnider

By: Schnider, Armin [author].
Contributor(s): Ohio Library and Information Network.
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2018Edition: Second edition.Description: 304 p: illustrations.ISBN: 9780198789680.Subject(s): False memory syndrome | Repression, Psychology | Brain -- physiology | Denial (Psychology) | Perceptual DefenseGenre/Form: Print books.Summary: 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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On Shelf RC455.2.F35 S48 2018 (Browse shelf) Available AU00000000011624
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Previous edition: 2008

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

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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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