People with Damage to the Hippocampus Seem to Be Unable

People with damage to the hippocampus seem to be unable to remember recent events even though their memory of events before the damage remains intact. This seems to indicate that the hippocampus is involved in

A) recognizing similar events.
B) producing hormones that control the memory neurons of the cerebrum.
C) generating new neurons in the cerebellum.
D) transferring information from short- term memory into long- term memory.
E) retrieving memories.