cerebral cortex in dogs

The thin layer of gray matter on the surface of the cerebral hemisphere that develops from the telencephalon. It consists of the neocortex (6 layered cortex or isocortex), the hippocampal formation and the olfactory cortex. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the cerebral cortex is

The thin layer of gray matter on the surface of the cerebral hemisphere that develops from the telencephalon. It consists of the neocortex (6 layered cortex or isocortex), the hippocampal formation and the olfactory cortex. The atlas records it as a nerve at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the cerebral cortex is

It sits within the nervous system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What the cerebral cortex connects to

The atlas records 36 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. part of anatomical entity, brain and central nervous system, and 3 more.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the cerebral cortex. Only a minority of structures carry those edges here, so an empty answer means nothing has been recorded — not that there is nothing to record.

Also called

Also recorded as cortex of cerebral hemisphere, brain cortex, cortex cerebralis, cortex cerebri, cortical plate (CTXpl) and cortical plate (areas), and 1 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0000956, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: anatomical entity, brain, central nervous system, cerebral hemisphere gray matter, nervous system and telencephalon.
• A kind of: anatomical structure.
• contains: archicortex, auditory cortex, calcarine sulcus, central sulcus, cerebral cortex subventricular zone and cerebral cortex ventricular layer, and 18 more.
• contributes to morphology of: telencephalon, cingulate gyrus, neocortex, orbitofrontal cortex and primary motor cortex.

Questions

Where is the cerebral cortex?

It sits within the nervous system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What does the cerebral cortex connect to?

Part of: anatomical entity, brain, central nervous system, cerebral hemisphere gray matter, nervous system and telencephalon.

Is the cerebral cortex the same in other species?

This page describes the dog. The human record of the same structure sits beside it on /compare, over one shared model rather than two atlases built separately.