(1) Neuropsychological evidence points towards our tendency to confabulate stories that we believe to be true in order to fit together disparate pieces of information.(2) Broken cultures therapeutically confabulate , mythologise former ways of life, and fight off meaninglessness by shoring up crumbling identities.(3) Does the person fumble, confabulate , get defensive and angry, etc.(4) People who confabulate experience their false memories as true.(5) He confided to me in a loud confabulatory whisper.(6) R. has come a long way but she still confabulates and struggles with short-term memory loss.(7) A responsible therapist has a duty to help a patient sort out delusion from reality, dreams and confabulations from truth, and real abuse from imagined abuse.(8) Chances are, you can get a large percentage of your family members confabulating with you on something that simply couldn't have happened, given that Bugs Bunny is a Warner Brothers character.(9) Nor were they confabulatory like this patient with viral encephalitis, whose short term memory lasted several minutes.(10) The story that she couldn't remember appears to be a complete Pentagon confabulation in order to cover up the phoniness of the whole operation.(11) Jones's skillfully woven novel is filled with colorful characters which somehow also achieve three-dimensionality; its stories are sometimes what Harlan calls u2018 confabulatory u2019 but still manage both credibility and poignancy.(12) To skeptical critics this is warning sign: the memories are confabulations suggested by prodding, suggestive therapy.(13) So to enter the example of Korsakoff's psychosis, this is also known as confabulatory amnesia, which has essentially two features: the one is that the patient is unable to lay down any new memories.(14) This was confabulated into Christian mythology, the converted Norse intertwining the character with one of the first saints of the region, Saint Nicholas.(15) Individual differences in hypnotic ability were associated with erroneous and confabulatory recall in the hypnosis and CI conditions but not in the MRR condition.(16) Why the brain stimulates and confabulates just the memories it does remains a mystery, though there are several plausible explanations.
