Table 1.

Summary of effects of DG manipulations on learning and anxiety.

	Contextual learning		Innate responses
	encoding	retrieval	exploration	anxiety
Inhibition of GCs in dorsal DG	⬇	⚊	⚊	⚊
Inhibition of GCs in ventral DG	⚊	⚊	⚊	⚊
Activation of GCs in dorsal DG	⬇	⬇	⬆	↓
Activation of GCs in ventral DG	⚊	⚊	⚊	⬇