Because H.M.'s surgery seemed to disrupt only those retrograde memories acquired shortly before his surgery, it was once widely believed that the hippocampus

A) stores most long-term memories.
B) stores all long-term memories.
C) temporarily stores memories before they are transferred to a more permanent storage site.
D) stores spatial memories.
E) temporarily consolidates short-term memories.


Answer: C

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