Cortex
Volume 45, Issue 5 , Pages 566-574 , May 2009

“Do you remember what you did on March 13, 1985?” A case study of confabulatory hypermnesia

  • Gianfranco Dalla Barba

      Affiliations

    • Inserm U. 610, Paris, France
    • Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6, Paris, France
    • AP-HP, Hôpital Henri Mondor, Service de Neurologie, Créteil, France
    • Dipartimento di Psicologia, Università di Trieste, Trieste, Italy
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. INSERM U. 610, 47 boulevard de l'Hôpital, Paris F-75013, France.
    • ,
  • Caroline Decaix

      Affiliations

    • AP-HP, Hôpital Saint Antoine, Service de Neurologie, Paris, France

Received 8 March 2007 ,Revised 7 January 2008 ,Accepted 11 March 2008.

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doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2008.03.009

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