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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
William Hirstein |
| ISBN: | 0262083388 9780262083386 0262582716 9780262582711 |
| OCLC Number: | 55518494 |
| Notes: | "A Bradford book." |
| Description: | vi, 289 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| 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. |
| Series Title: | Philosophical psychopathology., Disorders in mind |
| Responsibility: | William Hirstein. |
Abstract:
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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