The Psych Student

The website Neuro Philosophy features an article on Confabulatory hypermnesia, or severe false memory syndrome : Neurophilosophy.

In the journal Cortex, researchers describe the case of a patient with severe memory loss who has a tendency to invent detailed and perfectly plausible false memories (confabulations) in response to questions to which most people would answer “I don’t know”, such as the one above. They have named this unusual condition confabulatory hypermnesia, and believe that theirs is the first study to document it.

Also an interesting read at the same site: The woman who can’t forget