 The dorsal hippocampus (DH), ventral hippocampus (VH) and intermediate hippocampus serve different functions, project with differing pathways, and have varying degrees of place cells.The dorsal hippocampus serves for spatial memory, verbal memory, and learning of conceptual information.Using the radial arm maze, lesions in the DH were shown to cause spatial memory impairment while VH lesions did not.