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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910777407803321
• Autore: Hirstein William
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2005; ©2005
• ISBN: 0-262-31158-5; 0-262-27547-3; 1-282-09853-5; 9786612098536; 1-4237-9656-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (303 p.)
• Collana: Philosophical psychopathology. Disorders in mind
• Disciplina: 616.89
• Soggetti: Deception; Self-deception; Mythomania
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "A Bradford book."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Series Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1 - What Is Confabulation?; 2 - Philosophy and Neuroscience; 3 - Confabulation and Memory; 4 - Liars, Sociopaths, and Confabulators; 5 - Mind Reading and Misidentification; 6 - Unawareness and Denial of Illness; 7 - The Two Brains; 8 - Confabulation and Knowledge; 9 - Self-Deception; 10 - Epilogue: Our Nature; References; Name Index; Subject Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.