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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
neuroscience
Confabulation: Motivated reality monitoring
Neuropsychologia, Volume 45, No. 10, Year 2007
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Description
The study addressed the hypothesis that the content of confabulation is emotionally biased. Confabulating amnesic patients were compared with amnesic non-confabulating patients in a memory recognition experiment that manipulated the valence (pleasant, unpleasant), temporal source (past, present, future) and selection agent (self, other) of the to-be-recognised memories. The results revealed that confabulating patients were more likely than amnesic non-confabulating patients to incorrectly recognise past autobiographical events or thoughts as currently relevant memories, and this was more pronounced for pleasant compared to unpleasant events. These findings suggest that motivational factors, along with defective reality and temporality monitoring, contribute to confabulation. © 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Authors & Co-Authors
Fotopoulou, Aikaterini (Katerina)
United Kingdom, London
King's College London
Conway, Martin A.
United Kingdom, Leeds
University of Leeds
Solms, Mark Leonard
South Africa, Cape Town
University of Cape Town
Statistics
Citations: 75
Authors: 3
Affiliations: 3
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2007.03.003
ISSN:
00283932
Study Approach
Quantitative