After studying the memory difficulties of H.M. and patients like him, it became apparent that:
A) the ability to bring information from long-term memory into working memory is intact.
B) implicit memories cannot be retained but explicit memories can be recalled normally.
C) incoming sensory information bypasses sensory memory causing severe memory deficits.
D) the ability to transfer explicit information from STM into LTM is intact.

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H.M. and similar patients showed that while they could not form new explicit long-term memories (due to damage to the hippocampus), they could still bring existing long-term memories into working memory, indicating that this ability was intact.

After Studying the Memory Difficulties of H