Confabulation - Wikipedia Confabulation occurs when individuals mistakenly recall false information, without intending to deceive Brain damage, dementia, and anticholinergic toxidrome can cause this distortion Two types of confabulation exist: provoked and spontaneous, with two distinctions: verbal and behavioral
Confabulation: Why We Generate False Memories - Verywell Mind It's what psychologists call confabulation, a memory error in which our brains unconsciously fill in memory gaps with fabricated, misinterpreted, or distorted information When someone confabulates, they are confusing things they have imagined with real memories Confabulated memories can sometimes be confused with intentional lying or malingering