The galling fact is that at present science can offer no Pinocchio test that will allow us to decide in any given case whether memories are accurate or merely honest confabulations. |
Those closest to him regarded his tales simply as playful confabulations. |
Perry served in Turkey as an Air Force pilot and really should know better than to indulge in such dangerous confabulations. |
Another profoundly amnesic patient I knew some years ago dealt with his abysses of amnesia by fluent confabulations. |
After long confabulations, the tribal elders told him that only the old people would act in his movie. |
And what we recognise in her inner confabulations are our own contradictions. |