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Entorhinal cortex
Entorhinal cortext (EC)
- important
memory
center in the
brain
. EC forms the input to the
hippocampus
and is responsible for the pre-processing of the input signals. In the
eyeblink reflex[?]
, the association of impulses from the
eye
and the
ear
occurs in the entorhinal cortex. The
EC-hippocampus system[?]
plays an important role in
memory consolidation
and
memory optimization[?]
in
sleep
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