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Confabulation

Confabulation logo #10101) An informal conversation 2) Artificial neural network 3) Chat 4) Confab 5) Conversation 6) Discussion 7) Memory disorder 8) Schmoose 9) Schmooze 10) The act of confabulating
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Confabulation

Confabulation logo #10101) Causerie 2) Chat 3) Chitchat 4) Confab 5) Conversation 6) Gab 7) Gabfest 8) Gossip 9) Schmoose 10) Schmooze
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confabulation

confabulation logo #10444
  1. an informal conversation
  2. (psychiatry) a plausible but imagined memory that fills in gaps in what is remembered

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Confabulation

Confabulation logo #21000 In psychology, confabulation (verb: confabulate) is a memory disturbance, defined as the production of fabricated, distorted or misinterpreted memories about oneself or the world, without the conscious intention to deceive. Confabulation is distinguished from lying as there is no intent to deceive and the person is unaware the information is false...
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Confabulation

Confabulation logo #21000[neural networks] A confabulation, also known as a false, degraded, or corrupted memory, is a stable pattern of activation in a neural network or neural assembly that does not correspond to any previously learned patterns. The same term is also applied to the neural mistake-making process leading to a false memory. ==Cognitive science== In ...
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Confabulation

Confabulation logo #21002• (n.) Familiar talk; easy, unrestrained, unceremonious conversation.
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confabulation

confabulation logo #21003(from the article `memory abnormality`) Spurious memories or fabrications are very common in psychiatric disorders and may take on an expansive and grandiose character. They may also embody ... ...marked by a clouding of consciousness and abnormal eye movements. It also can lead to Korsakoff syndrome, marked by irreversible loss of rece...
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Confabulation

Confabulation logo #20408A clinical sign of an orienting deficit in neurological disease (and especially in dysexecutive syndrome). Attempting to make sense of a present situation not truly understood, and characterised (a) by inventing a plausible (but factually false) explanation, and (b) (as far as can be established) by
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Confabulation

Confabulation logo #20437 [See firstly frontal lobe syndrome and dysexecutive syndrome.] An attempt to explain present evidence to a present audience but without a true recollection to go on [compare false recollection]. If the confabulation is in any way grandiose or unreasonable then it is termed fantastic confabulation, but if it is reasonable-but-just-inaccurate it is ...
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confabulation

confabulation logo #20973<psychiatry> Fabrication of detailed, plausible experiences and events to cover gaps in memory. May occur as a feature of Wernicke's encephalopathy. ... (05 Jan 1998) ...
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confabulation

confabulation logo #21001(kon″fab-u-la´shәn) unconscious filling in of gaps in memory with fabricated facts and experiences, commonly associated with organic pathology. It differs from lying in that the patient has no intention to deceive and believes the fabricated memories to be real.
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Confabulation

Confabulation logo #22394gaps in memory are unconsciously filled with false memories
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Confabulation

Confabulation logo #20972Con·fab`u·la'tion noun [ Latin confabulatio .] Familiar talk; easy, unrestrained, unceremonious conversation. « Friends' confabulations are comfortable at all times, as fire in winter. Burton. »
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confabulation

confabulation logo #21219Type: Term Pronunciation: kon′fab-yū-lā′shŭn Definitions: 1. The making of bizarre and incorrect responses, and a readiness to give a fluent but tangential answer, with no regard whatever to facts, to any question put; seen in amnesia and Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome.
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Confabulation

Confabulation logo #20970Changing, loosely held and false memories created to fill in organically-derived amnesia
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confabulation

confabulation logo #20400[n] - (psychiatry) a plausible but imagined memory that fills in gaps in what is remembered
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confabulation

confabulation logo #21009confabulation, confab (colloquial or informal) 1. The act of confabulating; a conversation; a discussion. 2. In psychiatry, the replacement of a gap in a person's memory by a falsification that he or she believes to be true.
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confabulation

confabulation logo #20974 noun (psychiatry) a plausible but imagined memory that fills in gaps in what is remembered
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confabulation

confabulation logo #21199the act of confabulating; conversation; discussion. · the replacement of a gap in a person's memory by a falsification that he or she believes to be true.
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Confabulation

Confabulation logo #23815A phenomenon in which a person thinks he or she remembers something that did not really happen.
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confabulation

confabulation logo #23665 an informal conversation
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