Back قشرة شمية داخلية Arabic Corteza entorrinal Spanish Kortex entorrinal Basque قشر خیشومی Persian Cortex entorhinal French Corteccia entorinale Italian Entorinale schors Dutch Cortex entorrhinicus NB Kora śródwęchowa Polish Córtex entorrinal Portuguese
| Entorhinal cortex | |
|---|---|
 Medial surface. (Entorhinal cortex approximately maps to areas 28 and 34, at lower left.) | |
 Medial surface of right hemisphere. Entorhinal cortex visible at near bottom. | |
| Details | |
| Pronunciation | ɛntəɹ'ɪnəl |
| Part of | Temporal lobe |
| Artery | Posterior cerebral Choroid |
| Vein | Inferior striate |
| Identifiers | |
| Latin | cortex entorhinalis |
| MeSH | D018728 |
| NeuroNames | 168 |
| NeuroLex ID | birnlex_1508 |
| Anatomical terms of neuroanatomy | |
The entorhinal cortex (EC) is an area of the brain's allocortex, located in the medial temporal lobe, whose functions include being a widespread network hub for memory, navigation, and the perception of time.[1] The EC is the main interface between the hippocampus and neocortex. The EC-hippocampus system plays an important role in declarative (autobiographical/episodic/semantic) memories and in particular spatial memories including memory formation, memory consolidation, and memory optimization in sleep. The EC is also responsible for the pre-processing (familiarity) of the input signals in the reflex nictitating membrane response of classical trace conditioning; the association of impulses from the eye and the ear occurs in the entorhinal cortex.
- ^ Integrating time from experience in the lateral entorhinal cortex Albert Tsao, Jørgen Sugar, Li Lu, Cheng Wang, James J. Knierim, May-Britt Moser & Edvard I. Moser Naturevolume 561, pages57–62 (2018)