cerebral cortex

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 human body.

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 52 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. part of cerebral hemisphere gray matter and telencephalon.

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: cerebral hemisphere gray matter and telencephalon.
• A kind of: central nervous system cell part cluster, central nervous system gray matter layer and regional part of brain.
• contains: allocortex, auditory cortex, Brodmann (1909) area 1, Brodmann (1909) area 18, Brodmann (1909) area 28 and Brodmann (1909) area 3, and 36 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: cerebral hemisphere gray matter and telencephalon.

Is the cerebral cortex the same in other species?

Leumas holds the same relationship vocabulary for every species it carries, so where another dataset records this structure you can put the two side by side on /compare.