Self-serving confabulation in prose recall

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1429-1441

  Fotopoulou, Aikaterini ^a   Conway, Martin A ^b   Solms, Mark ^c   Tyrer, Stephen ^d   Kopelman, Michael ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^d NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Confabulation; Emotion; Limbic; Memory; Prefrontal cortex; Valence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFABULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; FALSE MEMORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MOOD; MOTIVATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RECALL; SELF REPORT; STORYTELLING;

ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; AMNESIA; BRAIN; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SELF CONCEPT; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 42749090021     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2007.12.030     Document Type: Article

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