Damage to the hippocampus is LEAST likely to cause a 30-year-old male to forget:
A)the make and model of the first car he bought when he turned 16.
B)what he ate for lunch that day.
C)a complex problem he had been trying to solve for the last week.
D)a meeting he has scheduled for tomorrow.

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The hippocampus is primarily involved in the formation of new memories and spatial navigation. Damage to the hippocampus would most likely affect the ability to form new memories or recall recent events, rather than older, well-consolidated memories such as the make and model of the first car bought at age 16.

Damage to the Hippocampus Is LEAST Likely to Cause a 30-Year-Old