Brain Fiction: Self-Deception and the Riddle of Confabulation geeks Santiago Diaz

Santiago Diaz

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Brain Fiction: Self-Deception and the Riddle of Confabulation geeks Santiago DiazAuthor Contributor(s): Hirstein, William Publisher: Bradford Books Date: 8 11 2006 Binding: Paperback Condition: NEW Some neurological patients exhibit a striking tendency to confabulateto 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