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Brain fiction : self-deception and the riddle of confabulation / William Hirstein.

Title: Brain fiction : self-deception and the riddle of confabulation / William Hirstein.
Author: Hirstein, William
Publication: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2005.

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Description

vi, 289 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

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.

Series Statement

Philosophical psychopathology. Disorders in mind

Uniform Title

Philosophical psychopathology.

Subject

Note

"A Bradford book."

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-276) and indexes.

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.

ISBN

0262083388 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2004050498

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Harvard Library