Therefore, despite anterograde amnesia preventing Wearing from learning new bits of information that can be explained in words (declarative memory), and also preventing him from storing new memories of events or episodes (also part of declarative memory), he has little trouble in retaining his musical abilities (procedural memory), though he has no conscious memory of having learned music.Another case in the literature is Eugene Pauly, known as E.P., a severely amnesic patient (owing to viral encephalitis) who was able to learn three-word sentences. He performed better on consecutive tests over a 12-week period (24 study sessions). However, when asked how confident he was about the answers, his confidence did not appear to increase. Bayley and Squire proposed his learning was similar to the process required by procedural memory tasks; E.P. could not get the answers right when one word in the three-word sentence was changed or the order of words was changed, and his ability to answer correctly, thus, became more of a "habit". Bayley and Squire claim the learning may have happened in the neocortex, and it happened without the conscious knowledge of E.P. They hypothesized the information may be acquired directly by the neocortex (to which the hippocampus projects) when there is repetition. This case illustrates the difficulty in separating procedural from declarative tasks; this adds another dimension to the complexity of anterograde amnesia.
Smear may refer to:

A smear test, wherein a sample is smeared over a microscope slide to be studied for any pathology
A smear test usually refers to a pap test, that is, a cervical smear
Smear (card game)
Smear Lake, a lake in Wisconsin
Smear campaign, or smear job,  an attack on the reputation of an individual or group making use of disinformation tactics
Smear Campaign (album), an album by Napalm Death
Pat Smear, the guitarist and actor
Smear (optics), motion that degrades sharpness, which is generally linear over the integration time
Colloquial name for a glissando, a glide from one musical pitch to anotherSmearing may refer to:

Smearing of an image taken by an astronomical interferometer:
Bandwidth smearing, a chromatic aberration;
Time smearing, a consequence of Earth rotation during the observation;
Smearing (climbing), a technique of rock climbing
Electron smearing, a tool for improving convergence in DFT calculations

See also
Smeared, the debut studio album by Canadian rock band Sloan