Implausible future events in a confabulating patient with an anterior communicating artery aneurysm

Scott N. Cole; Aikaterini Fotopoulou; Michael Oddy; Christopher J. A. Moulin

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Implausible future events in a confabulating patient with an anterior communicating artery aneurysm

Scott N. Cole^*, Aikaterini Fotopoulou, Michael Oddy, Christopher J. A. Moulin

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Abstract

Patient MW, a known confabulator, and healthy age-matched controls produced past and future events. Events were judged on emotional valence and plausibility characteristics. No differences in valence were found between MW and controls, although a positive emotional bias toward the future was observed. Strikingly, MW produced confabulations about future events that were significantly more implausible than those produced by healthy controls whereas MW and healthy controls produced past events comparable in plausibility. A neurocognitive explanation is offered based on differences between remembering and imagining. Possible implications of this single case in relation to confabulation and mental time travel are discussed.

Original language	English
Article number	N/A
Pages (from-to)	208-224
Number of pages	17
Journal	Neurocase
Volume	20
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/13554794.2012.741259
Publication status	Published - 4 Mar 2014

Keywords

Confabulation
Episodic future thinking
Mental time travel
Autobiographical memory
Episodic memory
Imagined events
MENTAL TIME-TRAVEL
EPISODIC MEMORY
PHENOMENAL CHARACTERISTICS
STRATEGIC RETRIEVAL
SELF
AMNESIA
REALITY
THINKING
THOUGHT
CONSTRUCTION

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Implausible future events in a confabulating patient with an anterior communicating artery aneurysm

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