Confabulation in a dysexecutive patient: implication for models of retrieval.
A confabulating patient MM is described who, despite clear evidence of a dysexecutive syndrome, showed normal prospective and retrospective memory in everyday life and preserved autobiographical memory. He also performed well on many, but not all laboratory-based measures of learning and memory that were given. His confabulation typically involved going well-beyond the information he could genuinely recall, and was attributed to a defect in memory monitoring resulting from his frontal lobe damage. Implications for the role of "stop rules" in memory retrieval are discussed.
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Clinica Neurologica III, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy.
Baddeley
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D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology*; D008569:Memory Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D011939:Mental Recall / Q000502:physiology; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014888:Wechsler Scales