confabulation

基本解释

Though the occurrence of confabulation in torture victims is more speculative, it's a marked possibility.
尽管虚构症在酷刑受害人群中的出现更为不确定，但它是明显可能的。
This phenomenon, known as confabulation in psychiatric jargon, is also found in people with frontal lobe disorders.
这种现象在心理术语中被称为虚构症，已经在大脑前额叶紊乱的人群中发现。
Confabulation triumphs over organic disease. The hemiplegiac’s anosognosia is a stark example, but we all engage in the same basic process.
偏瘫患者的病感失认症就是个很好的例证，但我们身上都在进行着相同的基本过程。

Our feeling of unity and control is a post-hoc confabulation and is easily fractured into separate parts.
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conversation or discussion about something
a problem that makes someone produce false memories about events, or the false memories themselves