clive wearing

• Clive Wearing, a musicologist, suffered from a rare form of amnesia that selectively affected his episodic memory. He could not form new memories and had limited access to his past, yet his semantic knowledge and procedural skills remained intact.
• This case demonstrates the distinction between short-term and

  long-term memory proposed by the multi-store model, as Wearing's short-term memory was severely impaired while his long-term semantic knowledge was preserved.