Patient H.M.had part of his medial temporal lobes,including the hippocampus,removed to eliminate seizures.After his surgery,H.M.could no longer
A) remember his life before the surgery.
B) retrieve old implicit memories.
C) form new explicit memories.
D) form new implicit memories.

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Patient H.M. could not form new explicit memories after his surgery, which involved the removal of part of his medial temporal lobes, including the hippocampus. This area of the brain is crucial for the formation of new explicit (or declarative) memories, which are memories of facts and events that can be consciously recalled.

Patient HM