The entorhinal cortex participates in memorization.
The entorhinal cortex is a region of the brain that plays a very important role in memorization (essential role in memory consolidation, particularly during paradoxical sleep phases). Thus, in the event of Alzheimer’s disease, it is this region of the brain which will be partly affected. The entorhinal cortex is also very important because of the close relationship it has with the hippocampus. It thus constitutes a privileged entry point for information that it will preprocess before communicating it to the hippocampus.