Strategic retrieval, confabulations, and delusions: Theory and data

Cognitive Neuropsychiatry

Volumn 15, Issue 1-3, 2010, Pages 145-180

  Gilboa, Asaf ^a  

^a RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Confabulation; Memory monitoring; Strategic retrieval; Ventromedial prefrontal cortex; Working With Memory

Indexed keywords

AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONFABULATION; CONFUSION; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELUSION; FALSE MEMORY; HUMAN; LONG TERM MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MEMORY DISORDER; MONITORING; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERSONALITY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SELF CONCEPT; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; THEORETICAL MODEL; THINKING; ZONA INCERTA;

BRAIN MAPPING; DELUSIONS; HUMANS; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDERS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REPRESSION;

EID: 77649331616     PISSN: 13546805     EISSN: 14640619     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13546800903056965     Document Type: Review

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