Integration of Memory and Reasoning in Analogy-Making: The AMBR Model
Boicho Kokinov, Alexander A. Petrov · 2000
this memory distortion is called confabulation (Schacter, 1995; Moscovitch, 1995). Neuropsychological patients with this symptom report their own biography in a very creative way. The misinformation effects of Loftus, the distorted Challenger reports told to Neisser and Harsch, and the confabulation of patients were attributed by Schacter (1995) to the same possible cause: people's failure to distinguish between various sources of information about an event; that is to say from episode blending or source confusion. Since the pieces that are used in the memory-reconstruction process come from real (although different) episodes, the (false) memories constructed in this way can be very vivid and people can strongly believe they are real.