People with damage to the hippocampus seem to be unable to remember recent events even though their memory of events before the damage remains intact. This seems to indicate that the hippocampus is involved in

A) producing hormones that control the memory neurons of the cerebrum.
B) retrieving memories.
C) generating new neurons in the cerebellum.
D) transferring information from short-term memory into long-term memory.
E) recognizing similar events.


D

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