Brain Fiction: Self-deception and the Riddle of Confabulation

Brain Fiction: Self-deception and the Riddle of Confabulation
ISBN-10
0262083388
ISBN-13
9780262083386
Category
Deception
Pages
316
Language
English
Published
2005
Publisher
MIT Press
Author
William Hirstein

Description

The phenomenon of confabulation—the tendency to construct plausible-sounding but false answers and believe that they are true—and what it can tell us about the human mind and human nature.

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