Question

Damage to the hippocampus would most likely interfere with a person's ability to learn:

Answer 1

New skills.

The hippocampus is in charge of memories. And if it is damage, it is difficult for a person to form new memories, thus making it difficult to learn new skills that they did not have before the damage.

Answer 2

Answer:

New names of newly introduced people,places,skills , directions and any new information that requires them to store from short term memory to long term memory.

Explanation:

Hippocampus and memory

Hippocampus assist us in processing and keeping two types of memory.

declarative memories and spatial relationships.

Declarative memories those responsible in assisting us to restore fact and events for example learning to memorise what we have studied.

Spatial relationships are those retain memories which allows us to remember pathways and routes for example learning the pathway that will take you to school or work.

The hippocampus also help us transfer information in the short term memory into the long term memory.

What can go wrong if hippocampus is damaged?

The person will lose their memory and the capability to make long term memories

They can not remember things that occured shortly but those that were already stored in the long term memory because after they have been stored they get transferred to another part of the brain.