A person who has suffered some sort of brain injury affecting only his or her hippocampus is most likely to show difficulty with
A)the consolidation of encoded information in the long-term store.
B)encoding of procedural information.
C)retrieval of semantic information.
D)retrieval of episodic information.

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The hippocampus is crucial for the consolidation of new information into long-term memory, particularly episodic and declarative memories. Damage to it often results in difficulties forming new long-term memories.

A Person Who Has Suffered Some Sort of Brain Injury