The idea of "confabulation" is central to "The Museum of Lost Wonder," as you might expect. From Wordnik.com. [SFGate: Top News Stories] Reference
NewSci on confabulation and memory distortion ». From Wordnik.com. [Mind Hacks: From sci-fi footnote to cutting-edge vision science] Reference
February 23, 2005, 3: 05 pm confabulation or the tower of babel?. From Wordnik.com. [Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » All Your Base Are Belong To Us] Reference
Why are some representatives buying into the Iran confabulation now?. From Wordnik.com. [Support Our Troops] Reference
They go along with his confabulation without attempting to confront it. From Wordnik.com. [Justin Frank: Never on Sunday] Reference
Well! Then we sits down, gradually gets cool, and holds a confabulation. From Wordnik.com. [Our Mutual Friend] Reference
Nina memorializes the confabulation at the end of this long post, thusly. From Wordnik.com. [What's with Althouse?] Reference
That's how she knows all about Biden's speeches -- that and confabulation. From Wordnik.com. [McCain Denies Blaming Obama And Democrats For Bailout Collapse] Reference
Good gracious! what a scene of confusion and confabulation next takes place!. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, September 25, 1841] Reference
That he could let someone else get in a word edgewise during the confabulation?. From Wordnik.com. [Jacob Heilbrunn: White House Beer Garden] Reference
I wonder sometimes where Counting My Blessings shades into outright confabulation. From Wordnik.com. [addendum] Reference
We know about the psychology of misremembering, confabulation of different memories. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 13, 2007] Reference
Outside was a confabulation of New York City police, detectives, and museum officials. From Wordnik.com. [Dance Of Death]
"Louis Mortimer and William Ferrers in deep confabulation -- wonders will never cease.". From Wordnik.com. [Louis' School Days A Story for Boys] Reference
These two central processes -- empty promises and confabulation -- ultimately converge. From Wordnik.com. [Justin Frank: Here's to You, America: Bush's Most Public Secret] Reference
To do so involves invention and confabulation, beyond simply describing the known facts. From Wordnik.com. [Wired Top Stories] Reference
It was a confabulation caused by two widely separated events in time being spatially close. From Wordnik.com. [Good For The Goose « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG] Reference
Bah, no feat of confabulation is impossible for the Denizens of Hillaryis44 and Townhall. com. From Wordnik.com. [Obama And Blagojevich: Obama's Response?] Reference
One of the symptoms of this confabulation is the claim that Old Europe offers nothing of value. From Wordnik.com. [Can Old Europe Save America?] Reference
Dinny was conscious of Jerry Corven sitting deep in confabulation with his solicitor and counsel. From Wordnik.com. [Over the River] Reference
Second, cortisol-induced damage to the prefrontal cortex can cause confabulation, or false memories. From Wordnik.com. [The Tortured Brain] Reference
Somebody†™ s coming to get you on Friday†– are confabulation if not outright fabrication. From Wordnik.com. [Correcting the facts and missing the truth « BuzzMachine] Reference
And at that moment Bessie appeared, coming in from the kitchen and confidential confabulation with Emily. From Wordnik.com. [Mrs. Day's Daughters] Reference
My confabulation over, I was leaving the theatre, when a sleek soft hand was gently passed through my arm. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847] Reference
Duchessa, Miss Tibbutt, Doctor Hilary, and herself in solemn and amazed confabulation for at least two hours. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
William Swor, Jayyousi's lawyer, described the government's case as a "unwarranted confabulation of the facts.". From Wordnik.com. [Terror Ties?] Reference
Either she had seen nothing, and the talk of two or three dark men had been confabulation, or she was blocking. From Wordnik.com. [When The Bough Breaks]
'You meant to have a private confabulation with the mater and the parson, but we like everything above board here. From Wordnik.com. [Dwell Deep or Hilda Thorn's Life Story] Reference
After a long confabulation he learned that they were proceeding to Sault St. Marie, where they intended to settle. From Wordnik.com. [Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory Volume I.] Reference
Future programmes will be on developmental amnesia, a memory champion, confabulation and mild cognitive impairment. From Wordnik.com. [Mind Hacks: July 2006 Archives] Reference
In the psychiatric world, when a patient creates a story that is part fantasy or delusion, it's called confabulation. From Wordnik.com. [Printing: Hillary's History of Failure to Vet Facts And Use Them With Good Judgment] Reference
A whispered confabulation in one corner between the three of them followed, much to the embarrassment of Pearson-Smith and Brown. From Wordnik.com. [Operation Sea Lion]
The promise itself becomes a confabulation; something made up to suit the moment and then believed as if it had already happened. From Wordnik.com. [Justin Frank: Here's to You, America: Bush's Most Public Secret] Reference
What I ` m seeing is some possible confabulation, and that ` s where people try to fill in details that they really don ` t remember. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 17, 2009] Reference
Of course, for the imperialists, the worms 'nest, and the reactionaries, perhaps for the CIA, that was a conspiratorial confabulation. From Wordnik.com. [CASTRO SPEECH CLOSING CULTURAL CONGRESS] Reference
Persimmon had ascertained, by a private confabulation with Katy's mother, that she had indignantly rejected it, and that she treated the. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858] Reference
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