Sam Recently Watched the Movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless

Multiple Choice

Sam recently watched the movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and became fascinated with the concept of memory and how it is stored in the brain. In the movie, the protagonist tries to forget his ex-girlfriend by undergoing a procedure that destroys the neural circuits that stored all his memories of their relationship. Sam decides to read up on the physiological basis for memory to get a better understanding of how it works.
-Sam wonders what would happen if there was a mistake in the procedure and the protagonist could no longer form any new memories.This hypothetical situation is an example of ______ and would be attributed to an impairment of the _______.

A) retrograde amnesia; prefrontal cortex
B) anterograde amnesia; prefrontal cortex
C) retrograde amnesia; hippocampus
D) anterograde amnesia; hippocampus