After recovering from a stroke,Farina was able to learn how to hit a tennis ball.She is unable,however,to learn and remember the name of the rehabilitation therapist who has been working with her each day to develop her tennis swing.Farina is most likely to have suffered damage to her
A) cerebellum.
B) hypothalamus.
C) basal ganglia.
D) hippocampus.

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The hippocampus is responsible for forming and consolidating new memories, so Farina's difficulty in remembering her rehabilitation therapist's name suggests damage to this area. The cerebellum, hypothalamus, and basal ganglia are not specifically related to memory formation in the same way as the hippocampus.

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