Confabulation: Motivated reality monitoring

TY - JOUR

T1 - Confabulation: Motivated reality monitoring

AU - Fotopoulou, A

AU - Conway, M A

AU - Solms, M

PY - 2007

Y1 - 2007

N2 - The study addressed the hypothesis that the content of confabulation is emotionally biased. Confabulating amnesic patients were compared with amnesic non-confabulating patients in a memory recognition experiment that manipulated the valence (pleasant, unpleasant), temporal source (past, present, future) and selection agent (self, other) of the to-be-recognised memories. The results revealed that confabulating patients were more likely than amnesic non-confabulating patients to incorrectly recognise past autobiographical events or thoughts as currently relevant memories, and this was more pronounced for pleasant compared to unpleasant events. These findings suggest that motivational factors, along with defective reality and temporality monitoring, contribute to confabulation. (c) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved

AB - The study addressed the hypothesis that the content of confabulation is emotionally biased. Confabulating amnesic patients were compared with amnesic non-confabulating patients in a memory recognition experiment that manipulated the valence (pleasant, unpleasant), temporal source (past, present, future) and selection agent (self, other) of the to-be-recognised memories. The results revealed that confabulating patients were more likely than amnesic non-confabulating patients to incorrectly recognise past autobiographical events or thoughts as currently relevant memories, and this was more pronounced for pleasant compared to unpleasant events. These findings suggest that motivational factors, along with defective reality and temporality monitoring, contribute to confabulation. (c) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved

U2 - 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2007.03.003

DO - 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2007.03.003

M3 - Article

VL - 45

SP - 2180

EP - 2190

JO - Neuropsychologia

JF - Neuropsychologia

IS - 10

ER -