The Human Brain’s Propensity To Make Stuff Up And Believe It – And How Most Of Us Control It And Some Of Us Manipulate It

Confabulation does seem to be innate: consider the stuff that people imagine they’ve done when they have brain damage, and that children come up with while the prefrontal cortex is developing. Neurologist Jules Montague writes about the phenomenon and the “doubt tags” people use to keep it in check – and how they can be induced to miss those tags and develop false memories.