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Author Schnider, Armin.

Title The Confabulating Mind : How the Brain Creates Reality.

Publication Info. Oxford : OUP Oxford, 2017.

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Edition 2nd ed.
Description 1 online resource (321 pages)
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Contents Cover -- The Confabulating Mind -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- 1 The reality of Mrs B -- 2 The history of confabulation -- Korsakoffâ#x80;#x99;s work -- Kraepelinâ#x80;#x99;s falsifications of memory -- Contested novelty -- Bonhoefferâ#x80;#x99;s résumé -- Traumatic Korsakoff syndrome -- Pickâ#x80;#x99;s suggestion of suggestibility -- Fine distinctions -- Mechanisms beyond gap-â#x80;#x8B;filling -- Satisfaction by gap-â#x80;#x8B;filling -- Definition by exclusion -- Korsakoff syndrome coming of age -- From toxicity to anatomy -- Summary -- 3 Types of confabulation
Definitions of confabulationConfabulations beyond memory -- Different forms of confabulation -- All sorts of confabulations in Mrs M -- Provoked versus spontaneous confabulation -- Behaviourally spontaneous confabulation -- Four forms of confabulations -- Evaluation of confabulations -- Diagnosing behaviourally spontaneous confabulation -- Special forms or different names -- Summary -- 4 Aetiologies and anatomy of confabulation -- Anatomical target regions -- Confusional state -- Anterior communicating artery aneurysm rupture
Posterior circulation strokeTraumatic brain injury -- Alcohol and avitaminosis -- Syphilis -- Herpes simplex and limbic encephalitis -- Tumours -- Hypoxia and cardiopulmonary arrest -- Schizophrenia and other psychoses -- Dementia -- Exceptional causes -- Anatomy across aetiologies -- Making sense of the dataâ#x80;#x94;â#x80;#x8B;towards a summary -- Summary and conclusions -- 5 Disorders associated with confabulation -- Provoked confabulations first -- Amnesia -- Disorientation -- False recognition -- Déjà  vu -- Paramnesic misidentification -- Anosognosia
Summary6 Normal false memory -- False memory in the Deeseâ#x80;#x93;Roedigerâ#x80;#x93;McDermott paradigm -- Flashbulb memories -- How to manipulate eyewitnesses -- Normal false memory versus pathological confabulation -- Summary -- 7 Mechanisms of confabulation -- Gap-â#x80;#x8B;filling -- Motivation and personality -- Executive hypothesis -- Behavioural and self-â#x80;#x8B;monitoring -- Reality and source monitoring -- Memory reconstruction and content monitoring -- Strategic retrieval account -- Consciousness in time -- Summary -- 8 Orbitofrontal reality filtering
How to test reality confusionâ#x80;#x98;Suppressionâ#x80;#x99; of currently irrelevant memory -- Reliability of the TCC measure -- Functional anatomy of reality filtering -- Subcortical participation in reality filtering -- Timing and impact of reality filtering -- Specificity of orbitofrontal reality filtering -- The need for orbitofrontal reality filtering -- Basic mechanism of orbitofrontal reality filtering -- Animalsâ#x80;#x99; processing of absent outcomes -- Human processing of absent outcomes -- Confabulation and the extinction signal
Note ""Development of reality filtering in children""
Summary This new edition gives an up-to-date account of the causes, anatomical basis, and mechanisms of confabulations. It traces the history of the phenomenon of false memories, considers a range of clinical cases, and makes important recommendations for future study. It is essential for neurologists, psychiatrists, and cognitive neuroscientists.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject False memory syndrome.
False memory syndrome.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Schnider, Armin. Confabulating Mind : How the Brain Creates Reality. Oxford : OUP Oxford, ©2017
ISBN 9780192506825
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9780191839016
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