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Author:   William Hirstein (Professor and Chair of Philosophy, Elmhurst College, Elmhurst, Illinois, U.S.A.)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.30cm
Weight:   0.500kg
ISBN:  

9780199208913

ISBN 10:   0199208913
Pages:   312
Publication Date:   06 August 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: William Hirstein: Introduction: what is confabulation? 2: John DeLuca: Confabulation in anterior communicating artery syndrome 3: Maryanne Garry, Lauren French & Elizabeth Loftus: False memories: a kind of confabulation in non-clinical subjects 4: Quin M Chrobak & Maria S Zaragoza: The cognitive consequences of forces confabulation: evidence from studies of eyewitness suggestibility 5: Todd Feinberg: Confabulation and ego functions; the 'ego dysequilibrium theory' 6: William Hirstein & V S Ramachandran: 'That's not my arm, Doctor': accounting for misidentifications with a two-phase theory 7: Alfred Mele: Delusional confabulations and self-deception 8: Elvira Lorente, Peter McKenna & German Berrios: Confabulation as a psychiatric symptom 9: Max Coltheart & Martha Turner: Confabulation and delusion 10: Kenneth Heilman: Anosognosia for hemiplegia: a confabulatory state 11: Thalia Wheatley: Everyday confabulation 12: Gianfranco Dalla Barba: Temporal consciousness and confabulation: escape from unconscious explanatory idols 13: Aikaterini Fotopoulou: Distentangling the motivational theories of confabulation

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William Hirstein is Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Elmhurst College, in Elmhurst, Illinois, USA. He received his PhD from the University of California, Davis, in 1994. His graduate and postdoctoral studies were conducted under the supervision of John Searle, V. S. Ramachandran, and Patricia Churchland. He is the author of several books, including On the Churchlands (Wadsworth, 2004), and Brain Fiction: Self-Deception and the Riddle of Confabulation (MIT, 2005). His other interests include autism, sociopathy, brain laterality, and the misidentification syndromes.

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