The standard model of consolidation proposes that the hippocampus is
A) strongly active for both new memories as they are being consolidated and memories for events that occurred long ago and are already consolidated.
B) strongly active for long-ago memories that are already consolidated but becomes less active when memories are first formed and being consolidated.
C) strongly active when memories are first formed and being consolidated but becomes less active when retrieving older memories that are already consolidated.
D) uninvolved in memory consolidation.

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The standard model of consolidation proposes that the hippocampus is strongly active when memories are first formed and being consolidated but becomes less active when retrieving older memories that are already consolidated. Therefore, option C is the correct answer. The other options are incorrect as they either state that the hippocampus is equally active for both new and old memories (option A), less active during memory consolidation (option B), or uninvolved in memory consolidation (option D).

The Standard Model of Consolidation Proposes That the Hippocampus Is