Confabulation - Unscrambling an enigma
from All In The Mind Hosted by Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Last night you went to a party. The music and food were excellent – it was a great night out. But there's a problem. People tell you you're in hospital and that there was no party. But you remember it, so how can your memory be wrong? Welcome to the world of confabulation – the unintentional retrieval of false memories and false perceptions. People who confabulate experience their false memories as true. It's a rare and enigmatic condition. Dr Martha Turner and Dr Katerina Fotopoulou disentangle some of the confabulation puzzle.
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