Many Alzheimer's patients in the early stages of the disease are still able to play the piano or to make coffee as they always have. However, their ability to remember names or faces rapidly declines. Thus, the type of memory that is still functioning adequately in these Alzheimer's patients is __________ memory

a. procedural
b. episodic
c. semantic
d. declarative


A

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