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The entorhinal and perirhinal cortices are situated in the parahippocampal gyrus and mark the transition from allocortex of the hippocampus to the cerebral cortex of the temporal lobe. The area stretches from the amygdaloid body to the prepiriform cortex and already features a 6-layered structure. Afferents: rhinencephalon, Ammon's horn, septum verum, cortex, thalamus.
Efferents: hippocampus, thalamus, tegmentum of Mesencephalon.
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(2009). Entorhinal and Perirhinal Cortices. In: Binder, M.D., Hirokawa, N., Windhorst, U. (eds) Encyclopedia of Neuroscience. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-29678-2_3040
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