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

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Hirstein, William

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780262275477
0262275473
142379656X
9781423796565
9780262083386
0262083388
1282098535
9781282098534

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Brain fiction.DDC classification:

616.89 22

LOC classification:

RC569.5.D44 H577 2005eb

NLM classification:

WL 103

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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.

Summary: 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 cortex, etc.

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"A Bradford book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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 cortex, etc.

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