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

Author: William Hirstein
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2005.
Series: Philosophical psychopathology., Disorders in mind
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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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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