A person who has suffered some sort of brain injury affecting only his or her hippocampus is most likely to show difficulty with
A)encoding of declarative information.
B)encoding of procedural information.
C)retrieval of semantic information.
D)retrieval of episodic information.

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The hippocampus is primarily involved in the encoding of declarative information, which includes facts and events. Damage to this area would most likely impair the ability to form new declarative memories.

A Person Who Has Suffered Some Sort of Brain Injury