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confabulate 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
Verb
/kənˈfabyəˌlāt/,
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confabulated, past tense; confabulated, past participle; confabulates, 3rd person singular present; confabulating, present participle;
  1. Engage in conversation; talk
    • - she could be heard on the telephone confabulating with someone
  2. Fabricate imaginary experiences as compensation for loss of memory

  1. unconsciously replace fact with fantasy in one's memory
  2. chew the fat: talk socially without exchanging too much information; "the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze"
  3. confer: have a conference in order to talk something over; "We conferred about a plan of action"
  4. (confabulation) chat: an informal conversation
  5. (confabulation) (psychiatry) a plausible but imagined memory that fills in gaps in what is remembered
  6. (Confabulates) In psychology, confabulation is the spontaneous narrative report of events that never happened. It consists of the creation of false memories, perceptions, or beliefs about the self or the environment usually as a result of neurological or psychological dysfunction. ...
  7. (Confabulation (neural networks)) A confabulation, also known as a false, degraded, or corrupted memory, is a stable pattern of activation in a neural network or neural assembly that does not correspond to any previously learned patterns. ...
  8. To speak casually with; to chat; To confer; To fabricate memories in order to fill gaps in one's memory
  9. (Confabulation) Verbalizations about people, places, and events with no basis in reality.
  10. (CONFABULATION) In psychiatry, the filling-in of gaps in memory with false information that the patient believes to be true. It is not deliberate telling of lies.
  11. (Confabulation) A phenomenon in which a person thinks he or she remembers something that did not really happen.
  12. (Confabulation) Confusing imagination and experiences someone hears about for personal memories. Some skeptics believe this plays a part in alleged past-life experiences.
  13. (Confabulation) The more or less unconscious, defensive "filling in" of actual memory gaps by imaginary experiences, often complex, that are recounted in a detailed, plausible way. Seen principally in organic psychotic reactions such as Korsakoff's psychosis.
  14. (Confabulation) the confusion of imagination with memory, and/or the confusion of true memories with false memories.
  15. (Confabulation) when someone unintentionally tries to cover up gaps in memories by fabricating experiences or situations through making up incorrect and bizarre responses to questions. These responses can sometimes appear detailed, fluent, and plausible. ...
  16. (confabulation) A symptom of Korsakoff's syndrome in which the patient supplies ready answers to questions without regard for the truth. The patient who confabulates appears to "fill-in" gaps in memory with plausible facts.
  17. (confabulation) In hypnosis, the subject's fabrication of recollections to fill in gaps in his or her actual memory.
  18. (confabulation) The involuntary production of a false or pseudomemory to cover a fundamental defect of memory; arises from brain tissue impairment.
  19. (confabulation) This term originally referred to a neurological deficit in which a person who is unable to recall previous situations or events fabricates stories in response to questions about those situations or events. ...
  20. (confabulation) talking together in an informal way, chatting.