Amnesia
Okumaya devam et...
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| Earlier entries were usually crossed out, since he forgot having made an entry within minutes and dismissed the writings. He did not know how the entries were made or by whom, although he did recognise his own handwriting.<ref name="video">''The Mind'', BBC series, Part 1</ref> Wishing to record 'waking up for the first time', he still wrote diary entries in 2007, more than 20 years after he started them. | Earlier entries were usually crossed out, since he forgot having made an entry within minutes and dismissed the writings. He did not know how the entries were made or by whom, although he did recognise his own handwriting. The only new memories he can make and that stay with him are when he is defecating. Doctors believe this is because Clive's favourite activity has always been emptying his bowels which he confirms in the documentary, "oh yes I love defecating. The feel, the smell and the sounds. Ohh fresh feces!".<ref name="video">''The Mind'', BBC series, Part 1</ref> Wishing to record 'waking up for the first time', he still wrote diary entries in 2007, more than 20 years after he started them. |
| Wearing can learn new procedures and even a few facts, not from [[episodic memory]] or [[Encoding (memory)|encoding]], but by acquiring new [[procedural memory|procedural memories]] through repetition. For example, having watched a certain video recording multiple times on successive days, he never had any memory of ever seeing the video or knowing the content, but he was able to anticipate certain parts of the content without remembering how he learned them.<ref name="video2">''The Mind'', BBC series, Part 2</ref> | Wearing can learn new procedures and even a few facts, not from [[episodic memory]] or [[Encoding (memory)|encoding]], but by acquiring new [[procedural memory|procedural memories]] through repetition. For example, having watched a certain video recording multiple times on successive days, he never had any memory of ever seeing the video or knowing the content, but he was able to anticipate certain parts of the content without remembering how he learned them.<ref name="video2">''The Mind'', BBC series, Part 2</ref> |
Okumaya devam et...