Brain Fiction: Self-Deception and the Riddle of Confabulation
(Part of the Philosophical Psychopathology Series)
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Some neurological patients exhibit a striking tendency to confabulate--to construct false answers to a question while genuinely believing that they are telling the truth. A stroke victim, for example, will describe in detail a conference he attended over the weekend when in fact he has not left the hospital. Normal people, too, sometimes have a tendency to confabulate; rather than admitting "I don't know," some people will make up an answer or an...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0262582716
ISBN13:9780262582711
Release Date:August 2006
Publisher:MIT Press
Length:302 Pages
Weight:0.95 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
Age Range:18 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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