Y.R. was a woman who suffered damage almost exclusively to the hippocampus. She performed well on _______ tasks but poorly on _______ tasks.
A) recognition; recall
B) recall; recognition
C) episodic; semantic
D) semantic; episodic

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The hippocampus is crucial for the formation of new memories and is more involved in recall tasks, where one must retrieve information without cues, than in recognition tasks, where cues are present to aid in identifying previously learned information. Y.R.'s ability to perform well on recognition tasks but poorly on recall tasks reflects this distinction.

YR Was a Woman Who Suffered Damage Almost Exclusively to the Hippocampus