Introduction : what is confabulation? / William Hirstein -- Confabulation in anterior communicating artery syndrome / JohnDeLuca -- False memories : a kind of confabulation in non-clinical subjects / Lauren French, Maryanne Garry, and Elizabeth Loftus -- The cognitive consequences of forced fabrication : evidence from studies of eyewitness suggestibility / Quin M. Chrobak and Maria S. Zaragoza -- Confabulation, the self, and ego functions : the ego dysequilibrium theory / Todd E. Feinberg -- He is not my father, and that is not my arm : accounting for misidentifications of people and limbs / William Hirstein and V. S. Ramachandran -- Delusional confabulations and self-deception / Alfred R. Mele -- Confabulation as a psychiatric symptom / P. J. McKenna, E. Lorente-Rovira, and G. E. Berrios -- Confabulation and delusion / Max Coltheart and Martha Turner -- for hemiplegia : a confabulatory state / Kenneth M. Heilman -- Everyday confabulation / Thalia Wheatley -- Temporal consciousness and confabulation : escape from unconscious explanatory idols / Gianfranco Dalla Barba -- Disentangling the motivational theories of confabulation / Aikaterini Fotopoulou.
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Title
Confabulation [electronic resource] : views from neuroscience, psychiatry, psychology, and philosophy / edited by William Hirstein.
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Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.