Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)

1. Most people would be incredibly accurate at matching names to faces from their high school yearbook, even decades after they graduated
2. Long-term memories tend to be stored in the hippocampus
3. Patient HM's memory loss was primarily due to the removal of a large section of the prefrontal cortex in an attempt to stop seizure activity
4. Because he suffered from anterograde amnesia, patient HM was unable to transfer new information from short-term into long-term memory
5. Patient HM developed anterograde amnesia due to brain trauma from a near-fatal automobile accident


1. TRUE
2. FALSE
3. FALSE
4. TRUE
5. FALSE

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