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which of the following memory stores was affected the most in patient hm? a. visuospatial sketchpad b. explicit memory c. implicit memory d. phonological buffer

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Patient HM suffered from profound anterograde amnesia, which impaired his ability to form new long-term declarative (explicit) memories. Therefore, the answer is b) explicit memory. The visuospatial sketchpad, phonological buffer, and implicit memory were not specifically affected in his case.

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