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• The cases of HM and Clive Wearing show how one type of LTM may be impaired (episodic in their cases), but the other types of LTM will be unaffected (i.e. procedural and semantic). For example, Clive Wearing was still able to skillfully play the piano and understand the concept of music (procedural and semantic) but was unable to remember his wife visiting him 5 minutes previously (episodic). This gives strong support to the idea that different areas of the brain are involved in the different types of LTM, and confirms the classification of different types of LTM as separate.
• The use of modern cognitive neuroscience brain scanning techniques, like those of Tulving, has allowed researchers to study the brain and memory more scientifically. FMRI's identify which types of memory are associated with particular brain areas. This has allowed ideas gained by ideographic case studies to be studied via nomothetic methods, on larger and healthy samples allowing generalisations to be made
• Tne use of idograpnic researcn such as Ciive vearing aiiows researchers to study memory in a way that would be impossible experimentally. However there are problems generalising the findings of these clinical case studies with one or few individuals, to explaining how memory works in the wider population. There could be other unknown issues unique to that individual that can explain the behaviour.