Studies with amnesia patients who have sustained brain damage similar to that of the patient known for years as H. M. have shown that:
A)H. M. was highly unusual in his ability to form new episodic memories.
B)implicit and explicit memory processes seem to involve different brain areas.
C)H. M. was highly unusual in his ability to form new procedural memories.
D)implicit and explicit memory processes seem to involve the same brain areas.

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Studies with amnesia patients have shown that implicit and explicit memory processes involve different brain areas. H. M. was not unusual in his ability to form new procedural memories, as he retained procedural memory for tasks he had learned before his surgery. However, he could not form new explicit memories.

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