confabulation

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This isn’t the same as confabulation, or making a false memory, because what is recalled really happened.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025

A little-studied neurological disorder, confabulation is a memory error that generates false, fabricated, or distorted memories.

From Washington Times • Aug. 25, 2023

The over-the-top confabulation drove Modernists mad and made Post-Modernists exult: the style wars were on.

From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2018

"So the question is: If there's something awry going on, was there hypnosis? Are they using confabulation?"

From Salon • Sep. 25, 2018

But this episode was symptomatic: even his love for me involved extending the fabric of his psychosis and confabulation.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee