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The dorsal region of the hippocampal formation serves for spatial memory, verbal memory, and learning of conceptual information.

Using the radial arm maze Pothuizen et al.

( 2004 ), found lesions in the DH to cause spatial memory impairment while VH lesions did not.

Its projecting pathways include the medial septal complex, and supramammillary nucleus.

The dorsal hippocampal formation also has more place field neurons than both the ventral and intermediate hippocampal formation ( Jung et al., 1994 ).