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An Adult Patient Has a Severe Case of Anterograde Amnesia

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An adult patient has a severe case of anterograde amnesia due to a hippocampal injury suffered at age 25. State if (and why) the person can (a) remember childhood events, (b) remember the names of high school classmates by looking at yearbook pictures, (c) remember a story she read in a magazine 30 minutes ago, (d) learn to surf-something that she had never done before-and get better at it each time she goes to the beach, (e) remember learning to surf, (f) state "topcoat" when asked to complete the word fragment "top-" after being primed with that word "topcoat" 30 minutes before the test.

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