A double dissociation has been demonstrated between people with damage to the ________, who show impairment in the explicit or declarative aspects of fear conditioning, and people with damage to the ________, who show impairment in the implicit or nondeclarative aspects of fear conditioning.
A)frontal lobe; hippocampus
B)hippocampus; amygdala
C)amygdala; basal ganglia
D)basal ganglia; frontal lobe

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The hippocampus is known to be important for explicit or declarative memory, while the amygdala is important for implicit or nondeclarative memory including fear conditioning. Therefore, damage to the hippocampus would impair explicit or declarative aspects of fear conditioning, while damage to the amygdala would impair implicit or nondeclarative aspects of fear conditioning.

A Double Dissociation Has Been Demonstrated Between People with Damage