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Turnbull, Jenkins, and Rowley present a study of the complex and fascinating neuropsychological phenomenon of spontaneous confabulation. In empirically revisiting the clinical material of Kaplan-Solms and Solms (2000), and by applying established neuroscientific methodologies, they produce findings that have genuine interdisciplinary merit. Their study falls within a newly developed and neuro-psychoanalytically informed approach that empirically accounts for emotional biases in confabulation (Fotopoulou, Solms, & Turnbull, 2004; Turnbull, Berry, & Evans, 2004). Such an approach provides an alternative motivational explanation to the various, predominantly cognitive, models of the phenomenon. Their results confirm the previous finding of significantly increased “pleasantness” in the false memories and beliefs of confabulating