Question 45 2 pts The famous case of Henry Molaison and his long-term anterograde amnesia following temporal lobe surgery provided strong evidence that long-term memories are stored in the hippocampus. medial temporal lobe structures are necessary for the retrieval of stored memories. the hippocampus is essential to the formation of implicit memories. the hippocampus participates in the transfer of short-term memories to long-term memories.
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