When people confabulate, they make an ill-grounded claim that they honestly believe is true, for example recalling an event from their childhood that never actually happened. This interdisciplinary book brings together some of the leading thinkers on confabulation in neuroscience, psychiatry, psychology, and philosophy.
When people confabulate, they make an ill-grounded claim that they honestly believe is true, for example recalling an event from their childhood that never actually happened. This interdisciplinary book brings together some of the leading thinkers on confabulation in neuroscience, psychiatry, psychology, and philosophy.
William Hirstein is Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Elmhurst College, in Elmhurst, Illinois, USA. He received his PhD from the University of California, Davis, in 1994. His graduate and postdoctoral studies were conducted under the supervision of John Searle, V. S. Ramachandran, and Patricia Churchland. He is the author of several books, including On the Churchlands (Wadsworth, 2004), and Brain Fiction: Self-Deception and the Riddle of Confabulation (MIT, 2005). His other interests include autism, sociopathy, brain laterality, and the misidentification syndromes.
Inhaltsangabe
* 1: William Hirstein: Introduction: what is confabulation? * 2: John DeLuca: Confabulation in anterior communicating artery syndrome * 3: Maryanne Garry, Lauren French and Elizabeth Loftus: False memories: a kind of confabulation in non-clinical subjects * 4: Quin M Chrobak and Maria S Zaragoza: The cognitive consequences of forces confabulation: evidence from studies of eyewitness suggestibility * 5: Todd Feinberg: Confabulation and ego functions; the 'ego dysequilibrium theory' * 6: William Hirstein and V S Ramachandran: 'That's not my arm, Doctor': accounting for misidentifications with a two-phase theory * 7: Alfred Mele: Delusional confabulations and self-deception * 8: Elvira Lorente, Peter McKenna and German Berrios: Confabulation as a psychiatric symptom * 9: Max Coltheart and Martha Turner: Confabulation and delusion * 10: Kenneth Heilman: Anosognosia for hemiplegia: a confabulatory state * 11: Thalia Wheatley: Everyday confabulation * 12: Gianfranco Dalla Barba: Temporal consciousness and confabulation: escape from unconscious explanatory idols * 13: Aikaterini Fotopoulou: Distentangling the motivational theories of confabulation
* 1: William Hirstein: Introduction: what is confabulation? * 2: John DeLuca: Confabulation in anterior communicating artery syndrome * 3: Maryanne Garry, Lauren French and Elizabeth Loftus: False memories: a kind of confabulation in non-clinical subjects * 4: Quin M Chrobak and Maria S Zaragoza: The cognitive consequences of forces confabulation: evidence from studies of eyewitness suggestibility * 5: Todd Feinberg: Confabulation and ego functions; the 'ego dysequilibrium theory' * 6: William Hirstein and V S Ramachandran: 'That's not my arm, Doctor': accounting for misidentifications with a two-phase theory * 7: Alfred Mele: Delusional confabulations and self-deception * 8: Elvira Lorente, Peter McKenna and German Berrios: Confabulation as a psychiatric symptom * 9: Max Coltheart and Martha Turner: Confabulation and delusion * 10: Kenneth Heilman: Anosognosia for hemiplegia: a confabulatory state * 11: Thalia Wheatley: Everyday confabulation * 12: Gianfranco Dalla Barba: Temporal consciousness and confabulation: escape from unconscious explanatory idols * 13: Aikaterini Fotopoulou: Distentangling the motivational theories of confabulation
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