Scientists are trying to
understand how amnesiacs can lose all memory of their past life - and
yet remember music. The answer may be that musical memories are stored
in a special part of the brain.
When British conductor and musician Clive Wearing contracted a
brain infection in 1985 he was left with a memory span of only 10
seconds.
The infection - herpes encephalitis - left him unable to
recognise people he had seen or remember things that had been said just
moments earlier.
But despite being acknowledged by doctors as having one of
the most severe cases of amnesia ever, his musical ability and much of
his musical memory was intact.
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