Delusion and confabulation: Mistakes of perceiving, remembering and believing

Journal article

This paper adopts an inclusive approach to the relationship between delusion and confabulation, according to which some symptoms might qualify as both delusional and confabulatory. Our initial focus is on the cardinal signs of delusions: incomprehensibility, incorrigibility, and subjective conviction. Setting aside post hoc (or secondary) confabulations-plausible rationalisations that might be generated by nonpathological belief formation processes-we focus on spontaneous memory-based confabu...

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Authors: Langdon, R; Bayne, T

• Journal: Cognitive Neuropsychiatry
• Volume: 15
• Issue: 1-3
• Pages: 319-345
• Publication date: 2010-01-01
• DOI: 10.1080/13546800903000229
• EISSN: 1464-0619
• ISSN: 1354-6805
• Language: English
• Keywords: Memory pathology; Belief formation; Psychosis; Confabulation; Perceptual aberration; Delusion