Brain Fiction: Self-Deception and the Riddle of Confabulation

by William Hirstein

Book Overview

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