Question

The entorhinal cortex of rodents has two main areas, the medial and lateral entorhinal cortex: One (medial) has neurons that code spatial information with respect to the animal's position, and the other region (lateral) has neurons that code ______ in the environment.

Answer 1

The correct answer is memory

The entorhinal corterx is located very close to the hippocampus, interconnects to the cerebral cortex through a large number of nerve fibers, as well as the cerebral amygdala or tonsillar nucleus. The entorhinal cortex has age connections and goes back to the cortex, the hippocampus. The cerebral amygdala is also located in the limbic system, and is a set of nerve cells together. It is located within the antero-inferior region of the temporal lobe, close to the hippocampus interconnecting with it. It is also close to the septal nuclei, the prefrontal area and the dorsal-medial nucleus of the thalamus.