Passage: Amnesic patients are described as those who have suffered damage to their medial temporal lobe, resulting in the impairment of explicit recollection of everyday facts and events. Priming studies on amnesic patients have varying results, depending on both the type of priming test done, as well as the phrasing of the instructions.

Question: What happens when someones medial temporal lobe is damaged?
impairment of explicit recollection of everyday facts and events