Self-enhancing confabulation: Revisiting the motivational hypothesis

Neurocase

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 6-15

  Fotopoulou, Aikaterini ^a   Conway, Martin ^b   Griffiths, Philippa ^c   Birchall, Daniel ^d   Tyrer, Stephen ^e  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c TYNE AND WEAR NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^d Regional Neurosciences Centre   (United Kingdom)

^e NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ACoA; Amnesia; Emotion; Memory; Prefrontal cortex; Valence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANEURYSM SURGERY; ANTERIOR COMMUNICATING ARTERY; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONFABULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOTOMY; EMOTIONALITY; FALSE MEMORY; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RECALL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SACCULAR ANEURYSM; SELF CONCEPT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

DECEPTION; DELUSIONS; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MALE; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; MEMORY DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REFERENCE VALUES; SELF CONCEPT;

EID: 34247167046     PISSN: 13554794     EISSN: 14653656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13554790601160566     Document Type: Article

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