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Brain fiction : self-deception and the riddle of confabulation /

Includes information on amnesia, anosognosia, Anton's syndrome, autism, Capgras' syndrome, Cotard's syndrome, denial, emotion, Fregoli's syndrome, hypothalamus, Korsakoff's amnesia, Korsakoff's syndrome, limbic system, lying, memory, mirror image syndome, orbitofrontal...

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Main Author: Hirstein, William
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2005.
©2005
Subjects:
Deception.
Self-deception.
Mythomania.
Psychophysiology.
Delusions.
Delirium.
Denial (Psychology)
Perceptual Defense
Psychophysiology
Delusions
Denial, Psychological
Deception
Delirium
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9780262275477
0262275473
142379656X
9781423796565
9780262083386
0262083388
1282098535
9781282098534
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • What is confabulation?
  • Philosophy and neuroscience
  • Confabulation and memory
  • Liars, sociopaths, and confabulators
  • Mind reading and misidentification
  • Unawareness and denial of illness
  • The two brains
  • Confabulation and knowledge
  • Self-deception
  • Our nature.

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