confabulation

Assuming he got away with murder the first time, which I think 95 percent of Americans do believe, he developed what I call a confabulation between denial and delusion.

CNN Transcript Dec 26, 2008 2008

Assuming he got away with murder the first time, which I think 95 percent of Americans do believe, he developed what I call a confabulation between denial and delusion.

CNN Transcript Dec 5, 2008 2008

The basic idea called confabulation is that what humans (and mammals in general) are computing is not the most likely answer to a set of facts (baysian) but instead what would make the existing facts they have most likely to be true.

Framing Effects and Memory, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Furthermore, brain scientists have noted the pervasive nature of self-deception and of different species of "confabulation", and they have begun to make progress in unmasking the underlying neurological processes (Hirstein 2005).

Emotion de Sousa, Ronald 2007

This ties into the idea of confabulation as the frontal lobes’ post-facto rationalization of decisions already made by the mammalian or reptilian brains.

i have no thesis here, i just like saying numinous 2007

This ties into the idea of confabulation as the frontal lobes’ post-facto rationalization of decisions already made by the mammalian or reptilian brains.

Yatima » 2007 » October 2007

The idea of "confabulation" is central to "The Museum of Lost Wonder," as you might expect.

SFGate: Top News Stories Jon Carroll 2011

The idea of "confabulation" is central to "The Museum of Lost Wonder," as you might expect.

SFGate: Top News Stories Jon Carroll 2011

Tell all you friends and neighbors along with family member about my quest and ask them go mark their vote for "confabulation" thank you one and all …

confabulation 2008

Psychologists call this tendency to fill in nonexistent details confabulation.

World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011