| 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)