Which of the following statements is true of the kind of amnesia demonstrated by people with bilateral hippocampal damage (like Patients H.M.and R.B. )or people with diencephalon injury (like people with Korsakoff's syndrome)?
A)They forget their dates of birth.
B)They can still learn new skills such as the serial reaction time task after the injury.
C)They remember meeting new people after the injury.
D)They have good memory for learning facts after the injury but fail to show priming effects.

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Patients with bilateral hippocampal damage or diencephalon injury typically have anterograde amnesia, which means they have difficulty forming new memories after the injury. However, they can still learn new skills such as the serial reaction time task, indicating intact procedural memory. They may have difficulty remembering meeting new people and their dates of birth, and they may show impaired priming effects.

Which of the Following Statements Is True of the Kind