confabulation

How To Use confabulation In A Sentence

• The idea of "confabulation" is central to "The Museum of Lost Wonder," as you might expect. SFGate: Top News Stories
• 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
• When we peer out into the world is all that we see potentially a confabulation - a grand visual illusion staged by our brain?
• The noises were no longer sharp screams or hoarse coughs, but a kind of jabbering jargon, as if the apes were engaged in a family confabulation. The Castaways
• It seems likely that most so-called past life regressions induced through hypnosis are confabulations fed by cryptomnesia.
• 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
• 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
• The story that she couldn't remember appears to be a complete Pentagon confabulation in order to cover up the phoniness of the whole operation.
• To skeptical critics this is warning sign: the memories are confabulations suggested by prodding, suggestive therapy.
• Their suggestion is that confabulation often doesn't involve memory at all. Rather, they say it reflects a basic inability to select the appropriate mental process for the task at hand.