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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People with bilateral hippocampal damage or diencephalon injury have impaired declarative memory but intact procedural memory. Therefore, they can still learn new skills, such as the serial reaction time task, after the injury. A is incorrect because they may remember their date of birth before the injury occurred. C is incorrect because they have difficulty forming new declarative memories, including meeting new people after the injury. D is incorrect because they typically have impaired priming effects.

Which of the Following Statements Is True of the Kind