If you had recently suffered damage to your hippocampus, it is most likely that you would have difficulty remembering ____.
A) what you ate for breakfast
B) how to tie your shoes
C) the purpose of your car's steering wheel
D) the four basic compass directions

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The hippocampus is primarily responsible for forming new memories and consolidating short-term memories into long-term ones. Remembering what you ate for breakfast involves short-term memory, which would be affected by damage to the hippocampus. Choices B, C, and D involve procedural or semantic memory, which are not primarily associated with the hippocampus.

If You Had Recently Suffered Damage to Your Hippocampus, It