Patient H.M. was able to perform all of the following tasks quite well EXCEPT
A) mirror drawing.
B) recognizing broken drawings.
C) recalling childhood events that occurred prior to the age of 9 years.
D) consolidating information from short-term memory to long-term memory using rehearsal.
E) making a classically-conditioned eyeblink response.

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Patient H.M., who had his medial temporal lobes removed to control seizures, was unable to consolidate new information from short-term to long-term memory, a condition known as anterograde amnesia. He could perform tasks like mirror drawing and make conditioned responses, which rely on different brain systems not affected by his surgery.

Patient HM