Brain fiction [[electronic resource] ] : self-deception and the riddle of confabulation / / William Hirstein

• Autore: Hirstein William
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (303 p.)
• Disciplina: 615.85/84
• Soggetto topico: Deception; Self-deception; Mythomania
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Brain fiction
• ISBN: 0-262-31158-5; 0-262-27547-3; 1-282-09853-5; 9786612098536; 1-4237-9656-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910452030303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Philosophical psychopathology.