Because H.M.'s surgery seemed to disrupt only those retrograde memories acquired shortly before his surgery, it was widely believed that the hippocampus
A) stores most long-term memories.
B) stores all long-term memories.
C) temporarily stores memories before they are transferred to a more permanent storage site.
D) stores spatial memories.
E) temporarily consolidates short-term memories.

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H.M.'s surgery disrupted only those memories acquired shortly before the surgery, indicating that the hippocampus plays a role in transferring memories from temporary storage to a more permanent storage site. This suggests that the hippocampus is involved in temporarily storing memories before they are consolidated into long-term memory, but it is not the site of long-term storage. Therefore, option C, which states that the hippocampus temporarily stores memories before they are transferred to a more permanent storage site, is the best choice.

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