Many years after H.M.'s surgery, he surprised his doctors by demonstrating that he had acquired:
A) artistic ability and a new interest in painting and sculpture.
B) some new episodic memories.
C) some new semantic knowledge.
D) some new explicit memories.

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H.M. was able to acquire some new semantic knowledge, which refers to general world knowledge that we have accumulated throughout our lives. Despite his inability to form new episodic memories, he could still learn new facts and concepts.

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