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Archicortex is basically categorized under allocortex
Allocortex

The allocortex is a part of the cerebral cortex characterized by fewer cell layers than the isocortex, or neocortex .The specific regions of the brain normally described as part of the allocortex are:...
. It is any cortex
Cerebral cortex

The cerebral cortex is a structure within the brain that plays a key role in memory, attention, perceptual awareness, thought, language, and consciousness....
 with fewer than six areas, specifically three layered hippocampal cortexes. It is necessary for hippocampus
Hippocampus

The hippocampus is a brain structure located inside the medial temporal lobe of the cerebral cortex, and therefore is part of the telencephalon ....
 formation.

The archicortex is a portion of the cerebral cortex
Cerebral cortex

The cerebral cortex is a structure within the brain that plays a key role in memory, attention, perceptual awareness, thought, language, and consciousness....
 that, with the paleocortex
Paleocortex

The paleocortex is a layer of the cerebral cortex intermediate Phylogenetics between the neocortex and archicortex....
, develops in association with the olfactory system
Olfaction

Olfaction refers to the sense of smell. This sense is mediated by specialized sensory cells of the nasal cavity of vertebrates, and, by analogy, sensory cells of the antennae of invertebrates....
, and which is phylogenetically
Phylogenetics

In biology, phylogenetics is the study of evolutionary relatedness among various groups of organisms , which is discovered through molecular sequencing data and morphological data matrices....
 older than the neocortex and lacks its layered structure. The embryonic archicortex corresponds to the cortex of the dentate gyrus and hippocampus in mature mammal
Mammal

Mammals are a class of vertebrate animals whose name is derived from their distinctive feature, mammary glands, with which they feed their young....
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Archicortex is basically categorized under allocortex
Allocortex

The allocortex is a part of the cerebral cortex characterized by fewer cell layers than the isocortex, or neocortex .The specific regions of the brain normally described as part of the allocortex are:...
. It is any cortex
Cerebral cortex

The cerebral cortex is a structure within the brain that plays a key role in memory, attention, perceptual awareness, thought, language, and consciousness....
 with fewer than six areas, specifically three layered hippocampal cortexes. It is necessary for hippocampus
Hippocampus

The hippocampus is a brain structure located inside the medial temporal lobe of the cerebral cortex, and therefore is part of the telencephalon ....
 formation.

The archicortex is a portion of the cerebral cortex
Cerebral cortex

The cerebral cortex is a structure within the brain that plays a key role in memory, attention, perceptual awareness, thought, language, and consciousness....
 that, with the paleocortex
Paleocortex

The paleocortex is a layer of the cerebral cortex intermediate Phylogenetics between the neocortex and archicortex....
, develops in association with the olfactory system
Olfaction

Olfaction refers to the sense of smell. This sense is mediated by specialized sensory cells of the nasal cavity of vertebrates, and, by analogy, sensory cells of the antennae of invertebrates....
, and which is phylogenetically
Phylogenetics

In biology, phylogenetics is the study of evolutionary relatedness among various groups of organisms , which is discovered through molecular sequencing data and morphological data matrices....
 older than the neocortex and lacks its layered structure. The embryonic archicortex corresponds to the cortex of the dentate gyrus and hippocampus in mature mammal
Mammal

Mammals are a class of vertebrate animals whose name is derived from their distinctive feature, mammary glands, with which they feed their young....
s. Being part of the limbic system
Limbic system

The limbic system is a set of brain structures including the hippocampus, amygdala, anterior thalamic nuclei, and limbic cortex, which support a variety of functions including emotion, behavior, long term memory, and olfactory....
, it has functions related to emotion
Emotion

An emotion is a mental and physiological state associated with a wide variety of feelings, thoughts, and behavior.Emotions are subjective experiences, or experienced from an individual point of view....
s and formation of memory. Signals being sent from the limbic lobe to the hippocampal formations can go via the archicortex as an intermediate.

See also

Paralimbic cortex
Paralimbic cortex

The paralimbic cortex is an area of three-layered cortex that consists of the following structures: the pyriform cortex, entorhinal cortex, and parahippocampal cortex on the medial surface of the temporal lobe, and the cingulate cortex just above the corpus callosum....