Clive Wearing can't form new long-term memories

Clive in the YouTube video forgot that he's met his wife within a day. He remembers that he has a wife (long-term memory), but can't seem to be able to encode new long-term memory that he's met his wife three minutes ago.

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References

Goldstein, Cognitive Psychology (p. 171).

Clive Wearing, a highly respected musician a choral director in England, who in his 40s, contracted viral encephalitis, which destroyed parts of his medial temporal lobe, which again included in the hippocampus and also the amygdala.

Clive Wearing - The man with no short-term memory | YouTube (opens new window)

• Note that the title is not entirely accurate

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• Long-term memory and working memory are biologically separated but connected
  • How these two memories are separated are evident in the case of Clive Wearing. Clive Wearing can't form new long-term memories.