Confabulation and delusion

Confabulation: Views from Neuroscience, Psychiatry, Psychology and Philosophy

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Coltheart, Max ^a   Turner, Martha ^b  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Confabulation; Confabulatory behaviour; Delusion; False memories

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921259808     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199208913.003.08     Document Type: Chapter

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