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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext When people confabulate, they make an ill-grounded claim that they honestly believe is true. There have been countless fascinating examples of confabulatory behaviour - people falsely recalling events from their childhood, the subject who was partially blind but insisted he could see, the amputee convinced that he retained all his limbs, to the patient who believed that his own parents had been replaced by imposters. Though confabulations can result from neurological damage, they can also appear in perfectly healthy people. Yet, how can confabulators so often appear to be of sound mind, yet not see their own errors? This book brings together some of the most advanced thinking on confabulation in neuroscience, psychiatry, psychology, and philosophy, in an attempt to understand this phenomenon; what are the clinical symptoms of each type of confabulation? Which brain functions are damaged in clinical confabulators? What are the neuropsychological characteristics of each type? What causes confabulation in healthy individuals? One reason why the study of confabulation is important is that there is wide agreement that the malfunctions that produce confabulation are malfunctions in significant, high-level cognitive processes. With contributions from a range of leading psychologists, psychiatrists, neuroscientists, and philosophers, the book develops an interdisciplinary dialogue that promises to increase our understanding of confabulatory neurological patients, and perhaps help us better understand memory, consciousness, and human nature itself. Zusammenfassung When people confabulate, they make an ill-grounded claim that they honestly believe is true, for example recalling an event from their childhood that never actually happened. This interdisciplinary book brings together some of the leading thinkers on confabulation in neuroscience, psychiatry, psychology, and philosophy. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: William Hirstein: Introduction: what is confabulation? 2: John DeLuca: Confabulation in anterior communicating artery syndrome 3: Maryanne Garry, Lauren French and Elizabeth Loftus: False memories: a kind of confabulation in non-clinical subjects 4: Quin M Chrobak and 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 and 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 and German Berrios: Confabulation as a psychiatric symptom 9: Max Coltheart and 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 ...
