Damage to the ________ is most likely to interfere with explicit memories of newly learned verbal information.Damage to the ________ is most likely to interfere with explicit memories of newly learned visual designs.
A) right hippocampus;left hippocampus
B) left hippocampus;right hippocampus
C) right cerebellum;left cerebellum
D) left cerebellum;right cerebellum

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The left hippocampus is more involved in verbal memory, while the right hippocampus is more involved in memory for visual and spatial information. Therefore, damage to the left hippocampus would interfere with explicit memories of newly learned verbal information, and damage to the right hippocampus would interfere with explicit memories of newly learned visual designs.

Damage to the ________ Is Most Likely to Interfere with Explicit