Confabulating Mind

Confabulations are recitations of events and experiences that never happened ranging from incorrect responses to questions to a blatant confusion of reality. The Confabulating Mind provides the most up-to-date account of the causes anatomical basis and mechanisms of the phenomenon of false memories. <p/>In this significant update on the first edition the author analyses new and diverse examples of striking clinical cases discusses children's sense of reality and incorporates his research on a distinct form of confabulation that is characterized by a confusion of reality. The book also examines other forms such as deja-vu paramnesic misidentification and anosognosia; looks at false memories as they occur in healthy people; and considers how the brain uses orbitofrontal reality filtering to create reality. By re-tracing the history of confabulations and integrating the latest insights into the mechanisms of confabulations it summarises current interpretations of confabulations before making recommendations for future study. <p/>This book is important reading for neurologists psychiatrists neuropsychologists cognitive neuroscientists and other scientists and clinicians interested in the organization of memory and thought.<br>