(1) It’s impossible to know exactly what he was saying during their confab, but I think the gist of it was how high George has to get off the ground when Sir John says “jump”.
(2) This was the French leader Lionel Jospin - and he wasn't invited to Hillary Clinton's confab.
(3) The companies at the White House confab operate across an array of industries.
(4) Who else would spend the morning after the premiere of his new film, the Coen brothers’ Hail, Caesar!, confabbing with Angela Merkel about the international refugee crisis?
Confabulate
Definition:
(v. i.) To talk familiarly together; to chat; to prattle.
Example Sentences:
(1) Seventy-six unselected patients affected by senile dementia were investigated in order to study the relationships between confabulation of denial and (a) stage attained by the demential process; (b) degree of memory loss, and (c) personality features and cultural models of the patients.
(2) Using his views as a starting point, the concept of confabulation is then defined in a Kraepelin-oriented manner, making it also applicable to the phantastic false memories found in some rarer forms of functional psychotic illness.
(3) Sixty-two subjects were divided into two groups (33 with and 29 without such a history) and compared on the following features: color-dominated percepts, primary-process content, confabulation, activity versus passivity, and two new scores related to dissociative symptoms.
(4) Implications for the role of frontal lobe dysfunction in the genesis of anosognosia and confabulation are discussed.
(5) There is a retrograde amnesia for up to several years, that disappears slowly, and apparently no confabulations.
(6) A gradual development of the confabulatory syndrome (from mnemonic confabulations to ecmnestic) was seen in senile dementia (5 cases) and in its combination with vascular atherosclerosis (61 cases).
(7) Beverly died in 2013. Letters: John Berger obituary Read more Last year saw the premiere in Berlin of the film The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger , directed by Tilda Swinton, Colin McCabe, Christopher Roth and Bartek Dziadosz, and the publication of Confabulations, a miscellany of essays and drawings.
(8) During the latest hearing, Nightingale claimed the pistol and ammunition must have belonged to Soldier N. His explanation about how he came by the gun and ammunition was put down to "confabulation" – an unconscious trick of the mind in which gaps are filled in with false memories.
(9) The author thinks that psychopathological symptoms, pathognomonic for damage to the mediobasal parts of the frontal lobes play a role in the pathogenesis of confabulations.
(10) A case of posttraumatic amnestic syndrome is described, with spontaneous confabulations as the main symptom.
(11) It is supposed that disturbances of recent memory are an indispensable, although insufficient condition for confabulation development.
(12) Early in the twentieth century it was used to refer to a subtype of dementia characterized by confabulations, marked memory impairment, hyperactivity, disorientation, elevated mood and preserved social graces.
(13) A neuropsychologic analysis of the disorder stresses the cognitive operations entailed in geographical localization and confabulation.
(14) Finally, his autobiographical memory was poor and subject to substantial confabulation.
(15) A number of plausible theories of confabulation have been proposed, but the various claims and counterclaims have not been systematically tested.
(16) Anton's syndrome or cortical blindness consists of blindness, denial of blindness and at times confabulation.
(17) The Council finds that recollections obtained during hypnosis can involve confabulations and pseudomemories and not only fail to be more accurate, but actually appear to be less reliable than nonhypnotic recall.
(18) Some forms of confabulation ('confabulation of denial') seem due to the need to deny demential dissolution by replacing information pointing to illness with expressions suggesting normal health and efficiency.
(19) A large increase in time spent awake and in stage I sleep is reported as well as confused sleep cycles, increased ocular density in case of confabulation and dream accounts recalling mental activity from the previous day.
(20) We propose that the typical confabulations are triggered by gaps in memory for the period surrounding the onset of his illness, while the aphasic (fantastic) confabulations are triggered by gaps in semantic representation.