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In an interview setting, people are more likely to confabulate in situations in which they are presented false information by another person, as opposed to when they self-generate these falsehoods.
Research has shown that patients with damage to the inferior medial frontal lobe confabulate significantly more than patients with damage to the posterior area and healthy controls.
What are the important differences between patients with similar etiology who do and do not confabulate?
Individuals who confabulate present incorrect memories ranging from subtle alterations to bizarre fabrications, and are generally very confident about their recollections, despite contradictory evidence.
However, rather than acknowledge their lack of insight, they confabulate a plausible explanation, and seem to be unaware of their unawareness.
Rather, they must confabulate an answer that seems plausible, relying on inferences and reasoning not unlike that used by the child in understanding another's subjective perspective.
People who are led to do odd actions through post-hypnotic suggestion, for example, often confabulate reasons for their action.