The thin layer of GRAY MATTER on the surface of the CEREBRAL HEMISPHERES that develops from the TELENCEPHALON and folds into gyri and sulci. It reaches its highest development in humans and is responsible for intellectual faculties and higher mental functions.
    

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Epistola anatomica, problematica, duodecima / authore Mich. Ernesto Ettmullero ... ad virum clarissimum Fredericum Ruyschium ... de cerebri corticali substantia, &c.

Anatomy: section of the brain showing fissures on the left cerebral hemisphere. Photograph, ca. 1900.

Cerebral Cortex

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Cercetari asupra reactivitatii corticale / Eduard Crighel.

Cerebrectomy. Dog.

The termination of ascending tracts in the thalamus of the macaque monkey / by W.E. Le Gros Clark.

Professor Schiff's experiments on the excitable area on the cerebral cortex / by Wm. R. Huggard.

Functional interrelation of cerebral cortex with basal ganglia and cerebellum / by J.F. Fulton.