confabulate

In other words, there are two ways to confabulate.

The patient's personality structure may play a role in their readiness to confabulate.

The solution for the paralyzed patient is to confabulate.

What are the important differences between patients with similar etiology who do and do not confabulate?

Visual imagery is received but cannot be interpreted; the speech centers of the brain confabulate a response.

More precisely, he came to confabulate.

The patient will continue to confabulate, to glibly explain away any anomaly or discrepancy."

"Unlike some children her age, Max doesn't confabulate and she doesn't lie.

He becomes malleable and suggestible, and in some instances he may confabulate.

His last paper examined how hypnosis could encourage witnesses to confabulate or "remember" things they could not have seen or experienced.

The two proud dowagers, Lady Lynn and Lady Ingram, confabulate together.

However, rather than acknowledge their lack of insight, they confabulate a plausible explanation, and "seem" to be "unaware of their unawareness".

"Don't confabulate yourself with naivety, Tik.

One can understand why violent criminals would confabulate such tales, months and even years after the episodes, but not why any criminologist or journalist should believe them.

Individuals who confabulate present incorrect memories ranging from "subtle alternations to bizarre fabrications", and are generally very confident about their recollections, despite contradictory evidence.

In other words, individuals who confabulate are motivated to do so, because they have gaps in their memory that they want to fill in and cover up.

I am reminded not only of a Viennese doctor but of Viennese pastry shops, or of places where people gather after hours to confabulate.

Beverly, though, just smiled slightly and said, "Go on, Jean-Luc, and confer and otherwise confabulate with your fellow captain.

BELVILLE: In this manner did the parson and I confabulate.

Korsakoff's patients who confabulate are more likely than healthy adults to falsely recognize distractor words, suggesting that false recognition is a "confabulatory behavior."

But alcoholics confabulate, often grandiosely, so when Porter said he was a world-famous writer, Dr. Singh knew that the alcohol had caused some permanent damage to the brain.

However, the control group were better at recognizing when a target was present in a lineup, leading to the determination that people with intellectual disabilities are more suggestible and likely to confabulate.

However, when knowingly being tested for accuracy, children are more likely to respond, "I don't know" at a rate comparable to adults for unanswerable questions than they are to confabulate.

Nevertheless, the patient insisted that she saw it moving, which shows that she continued to confabulate as a result of the damage to the right hemisphere, Dr. Ramachandran said.

Unlike patients with Korsakoff's and Alzheimer's, patients with schizophrenia are more likely to confabulate when prompted with questions regarding their semantic memories, as opposed to episodic memory prompting.