Lyle, an amnesic patient, thinks that he has met you before. "I remember you because of your red hat. And I was your boss at the mayor's office in Cleveland. I was the mayor then, you know. We had many dinners together, and you used to order the Delmonico steaks with onion rings on top." Lyle firmly believes these things are true, yet none of them really happened. Lyle has damaged the __________ of his brain.
A. hippocampus
B. medial dorsal thalamus
C. corpus callosum
D. Wernicke's area
Answer: B
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