Several studies
have found that confabulation is rather common among individuals who have not
been diagnosed with any type of brain disorder. The book Brain Fiction includes a review of expanding scientific research that provides
evidence and conclusions that confabulation is not something restricted to
psychiatric patients or to those who fantasize. The evidence shows that human
beings produce a body of narratives or stories every day. Many of these
stories are thought to help explain how they feel, the reason they made a
specific decision, the underlying prompts for judgments they made, why they exhibited
the behavior they did and the reason they took the actions they did, and so
on. Typically, these stories are a combination of fact and fiction, although
the individuals involved believe that what they said was completely true. It
gives one pause and perhaps can provide some impetus for becoming more aware
of and evaluating the stories one tells the self and others.
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Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Confabulation and the Brain, 7
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