Having read a story once, certain amnesia victims will read it faster the second time even though they can't recall having seen the story before. They have most likely suffered damage to the:______.
a) amygdala.
b) hypothalamus.
c) hippocampus.
d) cerebellum.

Respuesta :

Answer: option (C). hippocampus.

Explanation: hippocampus is an important part of the limbic system, a cortical region that regulates motivation, emotion, learning, and memory and it is a brain structure embedded deep in the temporal lobe of each cerebral cortex.

The hippocampus is part of the limbic system, and it plays a pertinent roles in the consolidation of information from short-term memory to long-term memory, and in spatial memory that enables navigation, however, a person can experience a loss of memory and a loss of the ability to make new, long-term memories if the hippocampus is damaged.