(from Latin, confabulare: to talk) To confabulate in the everyday sense is to talk, with an emphasis on the discussion and sharing of confidential information. In psychiatry, however, confabulation refers to the state when a patient, asked to recall a...

False memories may be full-blown memories of events that were never experienced or (perhaps more commonly) memories that are distorted (i.e., the event one is remembering actually occurred, but it did not occur in the way that is being recalled). Even...

Confabulation, also known as false memory is the confusion of imagination with memory, and/or the confusion of true memories with false memories. [1] Berlyne (1972) defined confabulation as “…a falsification of memory occurring in clear...

AUTHOR: William Hirstein PUBLISHER: The MIT Press, 2004 ISBN: 0-26208-338-8, 288 pages, $35.00 Speech-language pathologists serving individuals with dementia, frontal lobe damage, or right hemisphere syndrome are likely familiar with confabulation, a phenomenon in which individuals create false answers to...

The following telephone conversations among members of the Milosevic family were recorded in 1997 by Croatian intelligence agents and released in January to Globus, a weekly newspaper in Zagreb. Slobodan Milosevic is currently on trial in The Hague for several counts of war...