Content-specific confabulation

This report describes a person who confabulated following an anterior commu nicating artery aneurysm. His confabulation was limited to one very circums cribed area of his life and remained stable for twelve weeks, eventually im proving with rehabilitation. It is argued that a content-specific confabula tion of this nature challenges current theories of confabulation, and an in tegrative explanation is given based on previous findings by Burgess and Sh allice (1996b) of the mechanisms of autobiographical recollection in health y people.